1. Super-Resolution: Application for Face Recognition At a Distance Emil Bilgazyev 1 Advisor: Ioannis A. Kakadiaris Co- Advisor: Shishir K. Shah

2. Motivation 2 Database Super-Resolution LR image

3. Motivation (2) 3 Resolution (pixels) 9 11 13 15 17 21 22 23 25 Rank-1 Recognition Rate vs. Resolution

4. Motivation (2) 4 Resolution (pixels) 9 11 13 15 17 21 22 23 25 Rank-1 Recognition Rate vs. Resolution

5. SuRe-H Super-Resolution using Holistic Faces 5

6. Overview 6 + = InputEstimateOutput

7. SuRe-H Pipeline Estimation Fusion

8. Results 8

9. Qualitative Comparison 9

10. Publications Refereed Journal Articles E. Bilgazyev, S. K. Shah, and I. A. Kakadiaris, “Dictionary-based Sparse Encoding for Super-Resolution: Application for Face Recognition at a Distance”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2012. (submitted) B. Efraty, E. Bilgazyev, S.K. Shah, and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Profile-based 3D-aided face recognition," Pattern Recognition, vol.45, no. 1, pp. 43-53, 2012. Refereed Conference Articles M. Amer, E. Bilgazyev, S. Todorovic, S.K. Shah, I.A. Kakadiaris, and L. Ciannelli, "Fine-grained categorization of events in underwater videos by tracking fish," in Proc. International Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 6-13 2011. E. Bilgazyev, B. Efraty, S.K. Shah, and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Improved face recognition using super- resolution," in Proc. International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Washington DC, Oct. 11-13, 2011 E. Bilgazyev, B. Efros, S.K. Shah, and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Sparse representation-based super-resolution for face recognition at a distance," in Proc. British Machine Vision Conference, Dundee, UK, Aug. 29, 2011. E. Bilgazyev, S.K. Shah, and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Comparative evaluation of wavelet based super-resolution from video for face recognition at a distance," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar. 21-25 2011, pp. 559-565. B.A. Efraty, E. Ismailov, S. Shah, and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Towards 3D-aided profile-based face recognition," in Proc. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Arlington, VA, Sep. 28-30 2009. B. Efraty, D. Chu, E. Ismailov, S. Shah, and I.A. Kakadiaris, "3D-aided profile-based face recognition," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 7-11 2009. 10

11. Questions? 11