Assessing the Effect of Data Augmentation on Occluded Frontal Faces Using DWT-PCA/SVD Recognition Algorithm

The drift towards face-based recognition systems can be attributed to recent advances in supportive technology and emerging areas of application including voting systems, access control, human-computer interactions, entertainments, and crime control. Despite the obvious advantages of such systems be...

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Main Authors: Louis Asiedu, Joseph Agyapong Mensah, Francis Ayiah-Mensah, Felix O. Mettle
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Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Advances in Multimedia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4981394
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description The drift towards face-based recognition systems can be attributed to recent advances in supportive technology and emerging areas of application including voting systems, access control, human-computer interactions, entertainments, and crime control. Despite the obvious advantages of such systems being less intrusive and requiring minimal cooperation of subjects, the performances of their underlying recognition algorithms are challenged by the quality of face images, usually acquired from uncontrolled environments with poor illuminations, varying head poses, ageing, facial expressions, and occlusions. Although several researchers have leveraged on the property of bilateral symmetry to reconstruct half-occluded face images, their approach becomes deficient in the presence of random occlusions. In this paper, we harnessed the benefits of the multiple imputation by the chained equation technique and image denoising using Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWTs) to reconstruct degraded face images with random missing pixels. Numerical evaluation of the study algorithm gave a perfect (100%) average recognition rate each for recognition of occluded and augmented face images. The study also revealed that the average recognition rate for the augmented face images (75.5811) was significantly lower than the average recognition rate (430.7153) of the occluded face images. MICE augmentation is recommended as a suitable data enhancement mechanism for imputing missing data/pixel of occluded face images.
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spelling doaj-art-75d3989a3cd0435aa1ba71fd6d6069ee2025-08-20T03:35:41ZengWileyAdvances in Multimedia1687-56801687-56992021-01-01202110.1155/2021/49813944981394Assessing the Effect of Data Augmentation on Occluded Frontal Faces Using DWT-PCA/SVD Recognition AlgorithmLouis Asiedu0Joseph Agyapong Mensah1Francis Ayiah-Mensah2Felix O. Mettle3Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, GhanaDepartment of Statistics & Actuarial Science, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, GhanaDepartment of Statistics & Actuarial Science, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, GhanaDepartment of Statistics & Actuarial Science, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, GhanaThe drift towards face-based recognition systems can be attributed to recent advances in supportive technology and emerging areas of application including voting systems, access control, human-computer interactions, entertainments, and crime control. Despite the obvious advantages of such systems being less intrusive and requiring minimal cooperation of subjects, the performances of their underlying recognition algorithms are challenged by the quality of face images, usually acquired from uncontrolled environments with poor illuminations, varying head poses, ageing, facial expressions, and occlusions. Although several researchers have leveraged on the property of bilateral symmetry to reconstruct half-occluded face images, their approach becomes deficient in the presence of random occlusions. In this paper, we harnessed the benefits of the multiple imputation by the chained equation technique and image denoising using Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWTs) to reconstruct degraded face images with random missing pixels. Numerical evaluation of the study algorithm gave a perfect (100%) average recognition rate each for recognition of occluded and augmented face images. The study also revealed that the average recognition rate for the augmented face images (75.5811) was significantly lower than the average recognition rate (430.7153) of the occluded face images. MICE augmentation is recommended as a suitable data enhancement mechanism for imputing missing data/pixel of occluded face images.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4981394
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title Assessing the Effect of Data Augmentation on Occluded Frontal Faces Using DWT-PCA/SVD Recognition Algorithm
title_full Assessing the Effect of Data Augmentation on Occluded Frontal Faces Using DWT-PCA/SVD Recognition Algorithm
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title_full_unstemmed Assessing the Effect of Data Augmentation on Occluded Frontal Faces Using DWT-PCA/SVD Recognition Algorithm
title_short Assessing the Effect of Data Augmentation on Occluded Frontal Faces Using DWT-PCA/SVD Recognition Algorithm
title_sort assessing the effect of data augmentation on occluded frontal faces using dwt pca svd recognition algorithm
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