# Occlusion-guided compact template learning for ensemble deep network-based pose-invariant face recognition

## TL;DR

This paper introduces an occlusion-guided method for creating compact facial templates that focus on visible patches, improving face recognition performance across different views while reducing template size.

## Contribution

The proposed OGCTL approach constructs occlusion-aware compact templates using only visible patches, enhancing robustness and efficiency in face recognition.

## Key findings

- Significantly improved face verification accuracy on challenging datasets.
- Template size is reduced by an order of magnitude compared to previous methods.
- Enhanced robustness to occlusions and view variations in face recognition.

## Abstract

Concatenation of the deep network representations extracted from different facial patches helps to improve face recognition performance. However, the concatenated facial template increases in size and contains redundant information. Previous solutions aim to reduce the dimensionality of the facial template without considering the occlusion pattern of the facial patches. In this paper, we propose an occlusion-guided compact template learning (OGCTL) approach that only uses the information from visible patches to construct the compact template. The compact face representation is not sensitive to the number of patches that are used to construct the facial template and is more suitable for incorporating the information from different view angles for image-set based face recognition. Instead of using occlusion masks in face matching (e.g., DPRFS [38]), the proposed method uses occlusion masks in template construction and achieves significantly better image-set based face verification performance on a challenging database with a template size that is an order-of-magnitude smaller than DPRFS.