Kinship Identification through Joint Learning Using Kinship Verification Ensemble

While kinship verification is a well-exploited task which only identifies whether or not two people are kins, kinship identification is the task to further identify the particular type of kinships and is not well exploited yet. We found that a naive extension of kinship verification cannot solve the identification properly. This is because the existing verification networks are individually trained on specific kinships and do not consider the context between different kinship types. Also, the existing kinship verification dataset has a biased positive-negative distribution, which is different from real-world distribution. To solve it, we propose a novel kinship identification approach through the joint training of kinship verification ensembles and a Joint Identification Module. We also propose to rebalance the training dataset to make it realistic. Rigorous experiments demonstrate an appealing performance on kinship identification task. It also demonstrates significant performance improvement of kinship verification when trained on the same unbiased data.