Retinex method based on adaptive smoothing for illumination invariant face recognition

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1929-1945

  Park, Young Kyung ^a   Park, Seok Lai ^a   Kim, Joong Kyu ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive smoothing; Anisotropic diffusion; Conduction function; Face recognition; Illumination normalization; Iterative convolution; Retinex; Smoothing constraint

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CONVOLUTION; DIFFUSION; FACE RECOGNITION; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; CONDUCTION FUNCTION; ILLUMINATION NORMALIZATION; ITERATIVE CONVOLUTION; SMOOTHING CONSTRAINT;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 43049170496     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.01.028     Document Type: Article

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