In the process of building a smart city, face recognition can be applied to the transformation of enterprises, communities, and parks. The combination of building security system and face recognition technology can improve the security experience of enterprises and citizens through the solution of hardware and software integration. Face recognition is still facing the challenges of illumination, occlusion, and attitude change in the actual application process. In addition, the end-to-end convolutional neural networks (CNN) seldom make use of the hierarchical feature of the network. So, we propose a hierarchy feature fusion method for face recognition, which uses supervisory information to learn shallow and deep facial features. The features are fused to enhance the recognition accuracy of face recognition against illumination and occlusion. The method is applied to the transformation of the visual geometry group network and Lightened CNN. The face recognition experiments are carried out using the hierarchy network. Our method has achieved good recognition results in the labeled faces in the wild (LFW) and AR face databases.

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Feature pyramids of convolutional neural networks (ConvNets)—from bottom to top—are used by most recent researchers for the improvement of object detection accuracy, but they seldom aim to address the correlation of each feature channel and the fusion of low-level features and high-level features. In this paper, an Attention Pyramid Network (APN) is proposed, which mainly contains the adaptive transformation module and feature attention block. The adaptive transformation module utilizes the multiscale feature fusion, and makes full use of the accurate target location information of low-level features and the semantic information of high-level features. Then, the feature attention block strengthens the features of important channels and weakens the features of unimportant channels through learning. By implementing the APN in a basic Mask R-CNN system, our method achieves state-of-the-art results on the MS COCO dataset and 2018 WAD database without bells and whistles. In addition, the structure of the APN makes the network parameters lighter, and runs at 4 ms on average, which is ignorable when compared to the inference time of the backbone of ConvNet.

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