Transfer Subspace Learning Model for Face Recognition at a Distance

Many machine learning algorithms work under the assumption that the training and testing data are drawn from the same distribution. However, in practice the assumption might not hold. Transfer subspace learning algorithms aims at utilizing knowledge gained in source domain to learn a task in target domain. The main objective of this work is to apply transfer subspace learning framework on face recognition task at a distance. In this paper we identify face recognition at distance as a transfer learning problem. We show that if the face recognition task is modeled as transfer learning problem, the overall classification rate is increased significantly compared to traditional brute force approach. We also discuss a data set which is unique and meant to advance this research. The novelty of this work lies in modeling face recognition task at distance as a transfer subspace learning problem.