Volume Deep Face: A 3D Face Descriptor for Face Authentication System

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Suttipat Srisuk
Damrongsak Arunyagool
Kitchanut Ruamboon
Pantre Kompitaya
Nattapong Jundang

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the Volume Deep Face (VDF), a novel face representation proposed for the face authentication system. VDF provides a fast and compact representation of faces using deep learning, enabling one to encode more distinctive features. Using our proposed method, images can be generated to form a 3D VDF representation or a 2D face descriptor (2DFD). The 3D VDF is created from multiple images in the training set, while the 2DFD is generated from a single image during the testing phase. The matching confidence is evaluated using our new volume matching. Our face authentication system is verified with extensive experiments on the XM2VTS database.

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S. Srisuk, D. Arunyagool, K. . Ruamboon, P. . Kompitaya, and N. . Jundang, “Volume Deep Face: A 3D Face Descriptor for Face Authentication System”, TEEJ, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 23–30, Jan. 2026.
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