Face recognition using spatially constrained earth mover's distance

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2256-2260

  Xu, Dong ^a   Yan, Shuicheng ^b   Luo, Jiebo ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric similarity measure; Face recognition; Spatial misalignments; Spatially constrained Earth mover's Distance (SEMD)

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ASYMMETRIC SIMILARITY MEASURE; AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; CHALLENGING PROBLEMS; CMU PIES; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCES; FACE DATABASES; FACE IMAGES; FRGC DATABASES; KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE IMAGES; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SOURCE IMAGES; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; SPATIAL MISALIGNMENTS; SPATIALLY CONSTRAINED EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE (SEMD);

FACE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54949121310     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2004430     Document Type: Article

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