Multimedia Technology IV – Farag, Yang & Jiao (Eds)
© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN: 978-1-138-02794-7
Sparse coding based kinship recognition
Yunfei Chen, Hongwei Hu, Shujuan Cao & Bo Ma
Beijing Laboratory of Intelligent Information Technology,
School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT: Image based kinship recognition is a challenging problem since finding the subtle features that
are reliable across a large span of ages (e.g., father and son) and gender difference (e.g., father and daughter) is
very difficult. In this paper, we tackle the problem using sparse coding method, automatically classifying pairs of
face images as “related” or “unrelated” (in terms of kinship). First