Local contrast enhancement and adaptive feature extraction for illumination-invariant face recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1736-1747

  Kao, Wen Chung ^a   Hsu, Ming Chai ^a   Yang, Yueh Yiing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive feature selection; Face recognition; Local contrast enhancement; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FEATURE SELECTION; ADAPTIVE FEATURES; AUTOMATIC FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINED CONDITIONS; FACE IMAGE DATABASE; FACE IMAGES; FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; FACE SEGMENTATION; FEATURE SPACE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HUMAN FACES; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LOCAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; RECOGNITION RATES; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 75749158067     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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