Fusing global and local features for face verification

Abstract

In the literature of neurophysiology and computer vision, global and local features have both been demonstrated to be complementary for robust face recognition and verification. In this paper, we propose an approach for face verification by fusing global and local discriminative features. In this method, global features are extracted from whole face images by Fourier transform and local features are extracted from ten different component patches by a new image representation method named Histogram of Local Phase Quantization Ordinal Measures (HOLPQOM). Experimental results on the Labeled Face in Wild (LFW) benchmark show the robustness of the proposed local descriptor, compared with other often-used descriptors.