Pose invariant face recognition using probability distribution functions in different color channels

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 15, Issue , 2008, Pages 537-540

  Demirel, Hasan ^a   Anbarjafari, Gholamreza ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Feature vector fusion; Kullback Leibler distance; Majority voting; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

COLOR CHANNELS; COLOR SPACE; FACE DATABASE; FACE IMAGES; FACE RECOGNITION TECHNIQUE; FEATURE VECTOR FUSION; FEATURE VECTORS; FERET DATABASE; HEAD POSE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DISTANCE; MAJORITY VOTING; POSE-INVARIANT FACE RECOGNITION; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION RATES; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

COLOR; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; VECTORS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649859056     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.926729     Document Type: Article

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