Improving face recognition via narrowband spectral range selection using Jeffrey divergence

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-122

  Chang, Hong ^a   Yao, Yi ^a   Koschan, Andreas ^a   Abidi, Besma ^a   Abidi, Mongi ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Jeffrey divergence; Kernel density estimation; Multispectral images; Spectral distribution

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROAD-BAND IMAGES; FACE IMAGES; FUSED IMAGES; JEFFREY DIVERGENCE; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; NARROW BANDS; PHYSICS ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION ENGINES; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SENSOR DESIGNS; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL RANGES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 60449102625     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.2012211     Document Type: Article

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