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Generate a face image of a subject given an ear image as the input [pdf] (arxiv.org)
1 point by pixxel on Jun 5, 2020 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: A network turns a photo of someone's ear into a frontal face image, learning from matched ear-and-face photos. The generated faces matched the right person in the top 10 guesses 90.9% of the time on one dataset.

Abstract · Ear2Face: Deep Biometric Modality Mapping

In this paper, we explore the correlation between different visual biometric modalities. For this purpose, we present an end-to-end deep neural network model that learns a mapping between the biometric modalities. Namely, our goal is to generate a frontal face image of a subject given his/her ear image as the input. We formulated the problem as a paired image-to-image translation task and collected datasets of ear and face image pairs from the Multi-PIE and FERET datasets to train our GAN-based models. We employed feature reconstruction and style reconstruction losses in addition to adversarial and pixel losses. We evaluated the proposed method both in terms of reconstruction quality and in terms of person identification accuracy. To assess the generalization capability of the learned mapping models, we also run cross-dataset experiments. That is, we trained the model on the FERET dataset and tested it on the Multi-PIE dataset and vice versa. We have achieved very promising results, especially on the FERET dataset, generating visually appealing face images from ear image inputs. Moreover, we attained a very high cross-modality person identification performance, for example, reaching 90.9% Rank-10 identification accuracy on the FERET dataset.

Dogucan Yaman, Fevziye Irem Eyiokur, Hazım Kemal Ekenel
arXiv:2006.01943 · cs.CV · submitted Jun 2, 2020
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>In this paper, we explore the correlation between different visual biometric modalities. For this purpose, we present an end-to-end deep neural network model that learns a mapping between the biometric modalities. Namely, our goal is to generate a frontal face image of a subject given his/her ear image as the input.

>We formulated the problem as a paired image-to-image translation task and collected datasets of ear and face image pairs from the Multi-PIE and FERET datasets to train our GAN-based models. We employed feature reconstruction and style reconstruction losses in addition to adversarial and pixel losses. We evaluated the proposed method both in terms of reconstruction quality and in terms of person identification accuracy.

>To assess the generalization capability of the learned mapping models, we also run cross-dataset experiments. That is, we trained the model on the FERET dataset and tested it on the Multi-PIE dataset and vice versa. We have achieved very promising results, especially on the FERET dataset, generating visually appealing face images from ear image inputs. Moreover, we attained a very high cross-modality person identification performance,for example, reaching 90.9% Rank-10 identification accuracy on the FERET dataset.

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If you don't have time to read the paper, do take a quick look at the image results.

EDIT: I see HN strips .pdf from URL (good). Here's the direct PDF link https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.01943.pdf