How computational neuroscience could help improving face recognition systems?

Abstract

Computational neuroscience is a growing discipline in science, which tries to understand the operations of human brain and inspire from it as a new computational paradigm. Face recognition is an important question both in pattern recognition and neuroscience. In the last few years, neuroscientists found many facts about object recognition in primate's brain. Here, we propose a cortex inspired face recognition system which uses some findings about the brain such as the operations of feature extractor cells in visual cortex and the function of attention in discarding distracting parts of the images. Now it is the time to merge the knowledge of learning systems with biological findings. The proposed method named Advanced Neurologically Inspires Face recognition (ANIF) system is compared with previous model NIF and some well-known face recognition algorithms within different datasets, which shows remarkable results. © 2014 IEEE.