Illumination normalization with morphological quotient image

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2318-2325

  He, Xiao Guang ^a   Tian, Jie ^a   Wu, Li Fang ^b   Zhang, Yao Yao ^a   Yang, Xin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Illumination normalization; Morphology; Quotient image

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

FACE ILLUMINATION; FEATURE ENHANCEMENT; ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION; ILLUMINATION NORMALIZATION; LIGHT CONDITION; LIGHTING ESTIMATION; QUOTIENT IMAGE; RECOGNITION RATE; TRAINING DATA; YALE FACE DATABASE B;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 35248843629     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/jos182318     Document Type: Article

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