Illumination invariant face recognition using near-infrared images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 627-639

  Li, Stan Z ^a   Chu, RuFeng ^a   Liao, ShengCai ^a   Zhang, Lun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Face recognition; Illumination invariant; Local binary pattern (LBP); Near infrared (NIR); Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE MATCHING; INFRARED IMAGING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ILLUMINATION INVARIANT; LOCAL BINARY PATTERN; NEAR INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

BIOMETRICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FACE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947510451     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1014     Document Type: Article

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