Supervised relevance maps for increasing the distinctiveness of facial images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 929-939

  Kawulok, Michal ^a   Wu, Jing ^b   Hancock, Edwin R ^c  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Gender classification

Indexed keywords

EIGENFACES; EXISTING METHOD; FACE ANALYSIS; FACE IDENTIFICATION; FACIAL IMAGES; FACIAL REGIONS; FISHER-FACES; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; IMPORTANCE FACTORS; PRINCIPAL GEODESIC ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 78650266667     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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