Scanned to Digital Face Images Matching With Siamese Network

Abstract

Often in law enforcement and forensic application it is needed to match scanned facial image with a digital face image. This is because in many scenario, non-digital face images are obtained from the crime scene, news articles etc. that are needed to be identified. Non-digital face images are first scanned and then enhanced to match against the database. Challenges arrives because of poor quality of non-digital image, artifacts introduced in scanning process and high saturation etc. therefore matching becomes difficult. The methods used in literature involve specialized hand crafted pre-processing. In our paper, we propose an automated way of matching by using Siamese networks. The proposed method have been able to achieve an EER of 2.346% that is better than the current state-of-the-art.