Improving long range and high magnification face recognition: Database acquisition, evaluation, and enhancement

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-125

  Yao, Yi ^a   Abidi, Besma R ^a   Kalka, Nathan D ^b   Schmid, Natalia A ^b   Abidi, Mongi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face database; Face recognition; Image enhancement; Image quality; Image restoration; Long range surveillance; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEGRADATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SULFATE MINERALS; VIDEO RECORDING;

DE BLURRING ALGORITHMS; FACE IMAGES; FACE RECOGNITION RATES; FRAME SELECTION; HIGH MAGNIFICATION; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; LONG DISTANCES; LONG RANGE; LONG-RANGE SURVEILLANCE; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RECOGNITION RATES; SUPER RESOLUTION (SR); VIDEO DATABASES; WIDE AREA MONITOR (WAM);

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 47249091253     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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