Skip to Main Content. A not-for-profit organization, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Use of this web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Kinship classification by modeling facial feature heredity Abstract: We propose a new, challenging, problem in kinship classification: recognizing the family that a query person belongs to from a set of families. We propose a novel framework for recognizing kinship by modeling this problem as that of reconstructing the query face from a mixture of parts from a set of families.