Illumination compensation and normalization in eigenspace-based face recognition: A comparative study of different pre-processing approaches

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1966-1979

  Ruiz del Solar, Javier ^a   Quinteros, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Eigenspace based face recognition; Face identification; Face recognition; Illumination compensation and normalization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EIGEN SPACE; EIGENSPACE-BASED FACE RECOGNITION; FACE DATABASES; FACE IDENTIFICATION; FACE-RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; HIGH SPEEDS; ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION; ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION AND NORMALIZATION; PRE-PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RECOGNITION RATES; TRAINING IMAGES; WORKING CONDITIONS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 50349102923     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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