Robust face recognition based on illumination invariant in nonsubsampled contourlet transform domain

Neurocomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 10-12, 2010, Pages 2217-2224

  Cheng, Yong ^a,b   Hou, Yingkun ^a,c   Zhao, Chunxia ^a   Li, Zuoyong ^a,d   Hu, Yong ^a   Wang, Cailing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TAISHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Illumination invariant; Image denoising; Nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT); Normalshrink

Indexed keywords

FACE DATABASE; FACE IMAGES; FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; ILLUMINATION INVARIANT; ILLUMINATION MODELS; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; IMAGE DE-NOISING; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); SUB-BANDS;

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA BASE; FACE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77952554426     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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