Hierarchical fusion of multi-spectral face images for improved recognition performance

Information Fusion

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-210

  Singh, Richa ^a   Vatsa, Mayank ^a   Noore, Afzel ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Feature fusion; Image fusion; Support Vector Machine; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE FUSION; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACE IMAGES; FEATURE FUSION; INFRARED LIGHT SPECTRUM; PHASE FEATURES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 40049091999     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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