A methodology for rapid illumination-invariant face recognition using image processing filters

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-171

  Arandjelović, Ognjen ^a   Cipolla, Roberto ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Filters; Illumination; Image processing; Invariance; Video

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

AUTOMATIC FACE RECOGNITIONS; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FILTERING APPROACHES; FILTERS; GREY SCALES; HEAD MOTIONS; ILLUMINATION; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; ILLUMINATION INVARIANCES; IMAGE PROCESSING FILTERS; LOW RESOLUTIONS; MATCHING SCORES; OFFLINE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RECOGNITION ERRORS; SET-UPS; STILL IMAGES; VIDEO; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 58149152865     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2008.06.008     Document Type: Article

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