Synthesis of High-Quality Visible Faces from Polarimetric Thermal Faces using Generative Adversarial Networks

The large domain discrepancy between faces captured in polarimetric (or conventional) thermal and visible domains makes cross-domain face verification a highly challenging problem for human examiners as well as computer vision algorithms. Previous approaches utilize either a two-step procedure (visible feature estimation and visible image reconstruction) or an input-level fusion technique, where different Stokes images are concatenated and used...