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Comparison of MLP and GMM Classifiers for Face Verification on XM2VTS
Type of publication: Idiap-RR
Citation: cardinaux03RR1
Number: Idiap-RR-10-2003
Year: 2003
Institution: IDIAP
Abstract: We compare two classifier approaches, namely classifiers based on Multi Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs,',','), for use in a face verification system. The comparison is carried out in terms of performance, robustness and practicability. Apart from structural differences, the two approaches use different training criteria; the MLP approach uses a discriminative criterion, while the GMM approach uses a combination of Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) criteria. Experiments on the XM2VTS database show that for low resolution faces the MLP approach has slightly lower error rates than the GMM approach; however, the GMM approach easily outperforms the MLP approach for high resolution faces and is significantly more robust to imperfectly located faces. The experiments also show that the computational requirements of the GMM approach can be significantly smaller than the MLP approach at a cost of small loss of performance.
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Authors Cardinaux, Fabien
Sanderson, Conrad
Marcel, Sébastien
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