More Information Supervised Probabilistic Deep Face Embedding Learning

Ying Huang, Shangfeng Qiu, Wenwei Zhang, Xianghui Luo, Jinzhuo Wang
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 119:4484-4494, 2020.

Abstract

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly encourage the generic embedding learning for an open set recognition problem. In this paper, we analyse margin based softmax loss in probability view. With this perspective, we propose two general principles: 1) monotonically decreasing and 2) margin probability penalty, for designing new margin loss functions. Unlike methods optimized with single comparison metric, we provide a new perspective to treat open set face recognition as a problem of information transmission. And the generalization capability for face embedding is gained with more clean information. An auto-encoder architecture called Linear-Auto-TS-Encoder(LATSE) is proposed to corroborate this finding. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate that LATSE help face embedding to gain more generalization capability and it boost the single model performance with open training dataset to more than 99% on MegaFace test.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v119-huang20g, title = {More Information Supervised Probabilistic Deep Face Embedding Learning}, author = {Huang, Ying and Qiu, Shangfeng and Zhang, Wenwei and Luo, Xianghui and Wang, Jinzhuo}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning}, pages = {4484--4494}, year = {2020}, editor = {III, Hal Daumé and Singh, Aarti}, volume = {119}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {13--18 Jul}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/huang20g/huang20g.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/huang20g.html}, abstract = {Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly encourage the generic embedding learning for an open set recognition problem. In this paper, we analyse margin based softmax loss in probability view. With this perspective, we propose two general principles: 1) monotonically decreasing and 2) margin probability penalty, for designing new margin loss functions. Unlike methods optimized with single comparison metric, we provide a new perspective to treat open set face recognition as a problem of information transmission. And the generalization capability for face embedding is gained with more clean information. An auto-encoder architecture called Linear-Auto-TS-Encoder(LATSE) is proposed to corroborate this finding. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate that LATSE help face embedding to gain more generalization capability and it boost the single model performance with open training dataset to more than 99% on MegaFace test.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T More Information Supervised Probabilistic Deep Face Embedding Learning %A Ying Huang %A Shangfeng Qiu %A Wenwei Zhang %A Xianghui Luo %A Jinzhuo Wang %B Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2020 %E Hal Daumé III %E Aarti Singh %F pmlr-v119-huang20g %I PMLR %P 4484--4494 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/huang20g.html %V 119 %X Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly encourage the generic embedding learning for an open set recognition problem. In this paper, we analyse margin based softmax loss in probability view. With this perspective, we propose two general principles: 1) monotonically decreasing and 2) margin probability penalty, for designing new margin loss functions. Unlike methods optimized with single comparison metric, we provide a new perspective to treat open set face recognition as a problem of information transmission. And the generalization capability for face embedding is gained with more clean information. An auto-encoder architecture called Linear-Auto-TS-Encoder(LATSE) is proposed to corroborate this finding. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate that LATSE help face embedding to gain more generalization capability and it boost the single model performance with open training dataset to more than 99% on MegaFace test.
APA
Huang, Y., Qiu, S., Zhang, W., Luo, X. & Wang, J.. (2020). More Information Supervised Probabilistic Deep Face Embedding Learning. Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 119:4484-4494 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/huang20g.html.

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