Face Identification Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Network

Abstract Most of research studies that have dealt with face corrupted images to the level of being unrecognizable by a human are based on full image reconstruction. In some real scenarios, a single corrupted image might need to be recognized among a limited number of available clean images. This study deals with face identification from artificially corrupted images with various kinds of noises. The work proposes a face identification conditional generative adversarial network (FI-CGAN) model to identify faces based on the CGAN. The proposed models reconstruct the corrupted image based on available clean images to map the corrupted image to a specific label. The classification is made using the nearest neighbor method with peak signal-to-noise ratio, mean squared error and structural similarity index as metrics. The study used the Specs on Faces dataset and achieved a satisfactory performance for face identification.