A method of illumination compensation for human face image based on quotient image

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2705-2721

  Wang, Ying hui ^a,b   Ning, Xiao juan ^a   Yang, Chun xia ^a   Wang, Qiong fang ^b  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Illumination compensation; Image reconstruction; Quotient image

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHTING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION; NINE-DIMENSION FACE; QUOTIENT IMAGE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 41749115705     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.12.017     Document Type: Article

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