Face recognition by fusing thermal infrared and visible imagery

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 727-742

  Bebis, George ^a   Gyaourova, Aglika ^a   Singh, Saurabh ^a   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^b  

^a University of Nevada   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Fusion; Infrared; Principal component analysis; Visible; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHTING;

VISIBLE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33746767521     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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