Improving image classification with frequency domain layers for feature extraction

Machine learning has been increasingly used in current days. Great improvements, especially in deep neural networks, helped to boost the achievable performance in computer vision and signal processing applications. Although different techniques were applied for deep architectures, the frequency domain has not been thoroughly explored in this field. In this context, this paper presents a new method for extracting discriminative features according to the Fourier analysis. The proposed frequency extractor layer can be combined with deep architectures in order to improve image classification. Computational experiments were performed on face liveness detection problem, yielding better results than those presented in the literature for the grandtest protocol of Replay-Attack Database. This paper also aims to raise the discussion on how frequency domain layers can be used in deep architectures to further improve the network performance.