Robust face image matching under illumination variations

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2533-2543

  Yang, Chyuan Huei Thomas ^a   Lai, Shang Hong ^a   Chang, Long Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Illumination variations; Normalized gradient; Robust image matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FACE RECOGNITION; LIGHTING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); VECTORS;

ILLUMINATION VARIATION; ILLUMINATION VARIATIONS; NORMALIZED GRADIENT; ROBUST FACE IMAGE MATCHING;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 14544287460     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704410014     Document Type: Article

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