Towards open-set face recognition using hashing functions

Face Recognition is one of the most relevant problems in computer vision as we consider its importance to areas such as surveillance, forensics and psychology. Furthermore, open-set face recognition has a large room for improvement since only few researchers have focused on it. In fact, a real-world recognition system has to cope with several unseen individuals and determine whether a given face image is associated with a subject registered in a gallery of known individuals. In this work, we combine hashing functions and classification methods to estimate when probe samples are known (i.e., belong to the gallery set). We carry out experiments with partial least squares and neural networks and show how response value histograms tend to behave for known and unknown individuals whenever we test a probe sample. In addition, we conduct experiments on FRGCv1, PubFig83 and VGGFace to show that our method continues effective regardless of the dataset difficulty.