High performance face recognition using PCA and ZM on fused LWIR and visible images on the wavelet domain

Proceedings - The 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, ICCES'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 449-454

  Zahran, E G ^a   Abbas, A M ^b   Dessouky, M I ^b   Ashour, M A ^a   Sharshar, K A ^a  

^a HOT LABORATORIES CENTER   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Eigenfaces; Image fusion; Infrared face recognition; Wavelet transform; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; EIGENFACES; ENERGY COMPACTION; FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; INFRARED FACE RECOGNITION; REAL-TIME FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM; SUB-BANDS; VISIBLE IMAGE; WAVELET APPROXIMATIONS; WAVELET DOMAIN; WIDE AREA; ZERNIKE MOMENTS;

IMAGE FUSION; INFRARED RADIATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 77950425870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCES.2009.5383223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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