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In this paper we address the challenging Single Sample Per Person (SSPP) problem considering large datasets of images acquired in the wild, thus possibly featuring illumination, pose, face expression, partial occlusions, and low-resolution hurdles. The proposed technique alternates a sparse dictionary learning technique based on the method of optimal direction and the iterative     \u2113 0    -norm minimization algorithm called k-LiMapS. It works on robust deep-learned features, provided that the image variability is extended by standard augmentation techniques. Experiments show the effectiveness of our method against the hardness introduced above: first, we report extensive experiments on the unconstrained LFW dataset when referring to large galleries up to 1680 subjects; second, we present experiments on very low-resolution test images up to     8 \u00d7 8     pixels; third, tests on the AR dataset are analyzed against specific disguises such as partial occlusions, facial expressions, and illumination problems. In all the three scenarios our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches adopting similar configurations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19010146","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,3]],"date-time":"2019-01-03T11:11:56Z","timestamp":1546513916000},"page":"146","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Robust Single-Sample Face Recognition by Sparsity-Driven Sub-Dictionary Learning Using Deep Features"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8479-9950","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vittorio","family":"Cuculo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8210-4457","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"D\u2019Amelio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9274-4047","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giuliano","family":"Grossi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8534-4413","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raffaella","family":"Lanzarotti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3299-448X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianyi","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Al Saada Street, PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Taigman, Y., Yang, M., Ranzato, M., and Wolf, L. 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