Embedding Aggregation for Forensic Facial Comparison

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Autores principales: Ribeiro, Rafael Oliveira, Neves, João C. R., Ruifrok, Arnout C. C., Vidal, Flavio de Barros
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author Ribeiro, Rafael Oliveira
Neves, João C. R.
Ruifrok, Arnout C. C.
Vidal, Flavio de Barros
author_facet Ribeiro, Rafael Oliveira
Neves, João C. R.
Ruifrok, Arnout C. C.
Vidal, Flavio de Barros
contents In forensic facial comparison, questioned-source images are usually captured in uncontrolled environments, with non-uniform lighting, and from non-cooperative subjects. The poor quality of such material usually compromises their value as evidence in legal matters. On the other hand, in forensic casework, multiple images of the person of interest are usually available. In this paper, we propose to aggregate deep neural network embeddings from various images of the same person to improve performance in facial verification. We observe significant performance improvements, especially for very low-quality images. Further improvements are obtained by aggregating embeddings of more images and by applying quality-weighted aggregation. We demonstrate the benefits of this approach in forensic evaluation settings with the development and validation of score-based likelihood ratio systems and report improvements in Cllr of up to 95% (from 0.249 to 0.012) for CCTV images and of up to 96% (from 0.083 to 0.003) for social media images.
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spellingShingle Embedding Aggregation for Forensic Facial Comparison
Ribeiro, Rafael Oliveira
Neves, João C. R.
Ruifrok, Arnout C. C.
Vidal, Flavio de Barros
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Applications
I.4; I.5
In forensic facial comparison, questioned-source images are usually captured in uncontrolled environments, with non-uniform lighting, and from non-cooperative subjects. The poor quality of such material usually compromises their value as evidence in legal matters. On the other hand, in forensic casework, multiple images of the person of interest are usually available. In this paper, we propose to aggregate deep neural network embeddings from various images of the same person to improve performance in facial verification. We observe significant performance improvements, especially for very low-quality images. Further improvements are obtained by aggregating embeddings of more images and by applying quality-weighted aggregation. We demonstrate the benefits of this approach in forensic evaluation settings with the development and validation of score-based likelihood ratio systems and report improvements in Cllr of up to 95% (from 0.249 to 0.012) for CCTV images and of up to 96% (from 0.083 to 0.003) for social media images.
title Embedding Aggregation for Forensic Facial Comparison
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Applications
I.4; I.5
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00352