Performance characterisation of face recognition algorithms and their sensitivity to severe illumination changes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3832 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-11

  Messer, Kieron ^a   Kittler, Josef ^a   Short, James ^a   Heusch, G ^b   Cardinaux, Fabien ^b   Marcel, Sebastien ^b   Rodriguez, Yann ^b   Shan, Shiguang ^c   Su, Y ^c   Gao, Wen ^c   Chen, X ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COPYRIGHTS; LIGHTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; FACE VERIFICATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33744965710     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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