Distinctiveness of faces: A computational approach

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Bicego, Manuele ^a   Grosso, Enrico ^a   Lagorio, Andrea ^a   Brelstaff, Gavin ^b   Brodo, Linda ^a   Tistarelli, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Polaris ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Face authentication; Illumination changes; Log polar representation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; FACE AUTHENTICATION; FACE IMAGES; FEATURE SPACES; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; ILLUMINATION INVARIANCE; LOG-POLAR REPRESENTATION; MULTI SCALING; SALIENT REGIONS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 50249181224     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1279920.1279925     Document Type: Article

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