On multiple imputation-based reconstruction of degraded faces and recognition in multiple constrained environments

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2023

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Scientific African

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Recognition of degraded frontal face images acquired under occlusion constraints remain challenging despite the plethora of reconstruction mechanisms. Though recent works have lever aged on some imputation mechanisms in this regard, their robustness in multiple constrained environments may not be guaranteed and may be affected by the choice of pre-processing mechanism. This paper proposes enhancement mechanisms that augment or complement the use of three (3) multiple imputation mechanisms for facial reconstruction in the presence of multiple constraints (10% and 20% occlusions and varying facial expressions). Specifically, we propose the use of a Discrete Cosine Transform-based (DCT) denoising or a Discrete Wavelet based denoising following Histogram Equalization (HE-DWT) of the reconstructed face images prior to recognition. Experimental results showed that the proposed augmented enhancements improved significantly the recognition rates (90.63% & 91.15% and 86.98% & 85.94% for DCT and HE-DWT at 10% and 20% occlusion levels respectively for Missforest de-occluded face images) as compared with DWT in recognizing degraded frontal face images under moderately low levels of occlusions and varying expressions.

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Multiple imputation methods, Face recognition, Multiple constraints, Occlusions, Discrete cosine transform

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