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The Research of Chinese Ethnical Face Recognition Based on Deep Learning

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Abstract

Face recognition emerged in the seventies. With the introduction of deep learning methods, especially the convolution neural networks (CNNs), more and more traditional machine learning techniques have been recently superseded by them. In a multi-ethnic country like China, the study for Chinese ethnical face recognition (CEFR) has practical demands and applications. In this paper, we provide a brief of popular face recognition procedure based on deep learning method firstly. Then, as lacking of the corresponding dataset, we construct a collection of Chinese ethnical face images (CCEFI) including Han, Uygur, Tibetan and Mongolian. Based on multi-task cascaded convolution networks (MTCNN) [14] and residual networks (ResNets) [11, 12], our proposed model can achieve promising results for face detection and classification. Specifically, the average precision reaches 75% on CCEFI self-draft. Experimental results indicate that our model is able to detect the face in some constrained environments and distinguish its ethnical category. Meanwhile, the dataset established by us would be a useful dataset for relevant work.

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This work is supported by Major Scientific and Technological Special Project of Guizhou Province (20183002).

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  1. Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, GuiZhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China

    Qike Zhao & Jingkuan Song

  2. Center for Future Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

    Qike Zhao, Tangming Chen, Xiaosu Zhu & Jingkuan Song

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Zhao, Q., Chen, T., Zhu, X., Song, J. (2019). The Research of Chinese Ethnical Face Recognition Based on Deep Learning. In: Song, J., Zhu, X. (eds) Web and Big Data. APWeb-WAIM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11809. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33982-1_7

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