A probabilistic fusion methodology for face recognition

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 2772-2787

  Rao, K Srinivasa ^a   Rajagopalan, A N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Block histogram modification; Distance in feature space; Edginess image; Face recognition; Probabilistic fusion

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

DISTANCE-IN-FEATURE-SPACE (DIFS); FISHER'S LINEAR DISCRIMINANT (FLD); ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33746834115     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2772     Document Type: Article

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