Robustness of face recognition to variations of illumination on mobile devices based on SVM

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-44

  Nam, Gi Pyo ^a,b   Kang, Byung Jun ^c   Park, Kang Ryoung ^a,b  

^a Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^b Biometrics Engineering Research Center (BERC)   (South Korea)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Illumination normalization; Mobile device; SVM

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649174653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19767277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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