Research Article

Pose-Invariant Face Recognition via RGB-D Images

Table 2

Recognition rates of different methods on the pose-expression subset of the CurtinFaces database.

Pose COV+LBP [13]DCT+SRC [11] RSRC [14]Proposed method
DepthTextureFusionDepthTextureFusion

FrontalN/A 100% 100% 100% 100%100% 100% 100%
±30° yaw94.2% 88.3% 99.8% 99.4% 99.4% 88.5% 99.5% 99.5%
±60° yaw84.6%87.0%97.4%98.2%98.2%87.7%97.5%98.4%
±90° yaw75.0%74.0%83.7%84.6%93.5%78.5%94.0%95.1%
±60° pitchN/A81.6%89.1%92.8%N/A82.5%94.3%96.7%

For COV+LBP, a subset of pose-variation of the CurtinFaces is used.
For RSRC, we report the average of the best results at the same yaw pose obtained by the method.