Normalization of face illumination based on large-and small-scale features

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1807-1821

  Xie, Xiaohua ^a   Zheng, Wei Shi ^a,b   Lai, Jianhuang ^a,c   Yuen, Pong C ^d   Suen, Ching Y ^e  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Public Security Fire Corps of Guangdong Province   (China)

^d HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face recognition; illumination normalization; visual compensation

Indexed keywords

FACE DATABASE; FACE IMAGES; ILLUMINATION NORMALIZATION; INTRINSIC FEATURES; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; NORMALIZED IMAGE; NOVEL METHODS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VISUAL COMPENSATION; VISUAL QUALITIES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79959591217     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2097270     Document Type: Article

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