A Novel Collaboration Representation Method of Combining PCANet with Occlusion Positioning for Non-cooperative Face Recognition

Authors

  • Zhi Zhang Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China
  • Bingyu Sun Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2513

Keywords:

Collaborative representation, face classification, occlusion positioning, local “depth” features

Abstract

At present, many researches on non-cooperative face recognition have achieved good results, but the representation ability of facial features still needs to be improved. Moreover, due to the existence of occlusion in test samples and the uncertainty of their locations, the task of face recognition is more challenging. To this end, (1) In this paper, multi-scale sample information is added to PCA Network (PCA Network) to obtain Multi-Scale PCANet(MSPCANet) to improve the expression ability of features, and further provide the criteria for selecting the optimal size of PCA filter. (2) The authors use the Markov random field to locate the occlusion position of the test sample, remove the feature information corresponding to the occlusion position in the original image from the feature map, and reduce the information interference caused by the occlusion by classifying the feature information excluding the occlusion. In order to verify the effectiveness of the method, uncoordinated face recognition experiments were carried out on AR and LFW data sets respectively. The results showed that the method with occlusion position information and multi-scale feature information fusion always achieved encouraging performance.

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Author Biographies

Zhi Zhang, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China

Zhi Zhang Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, Anhui, China.

Bingyu Sun, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China

Bingyu Sun Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, Anhui, China.

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Published

2026-01-29

How to Cite

Zhang, Z. ., & Sun, B. . (2026). A Novel Collaboration Representation Method of Combining PCANet with Occlusion Positioning for Non-cooperative Face Recognition. Journal of Web Engineering, 25(01), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2513

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ICOW3 2025