Factors that influence algorithm performance in the Face Recognition Grand Challenge

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 750-762

  Beveridge, J Ross ^a   Givens, Geof H ^b   Phillips, P Jonathon ^c   Draper, Bruce A ^a  

^a University Services Building   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Performance analysis; Statistical modeling; Subject covariates

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; FACE RECOGNITION GRAND CHALLENGES; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL STUDIES; SUBJECT COVARIATES; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 64049110476     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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