Combining perceptual features with diffusion distance for face recognition

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 577-588

  Zhou, Huiyu ^a   Sadka, Abdul H ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Configuration; diffusion distance; face recognition; holistic; perceptual features

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL ALGORITHMS; CONFIGURATION; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; DIFFUSION DISTANCE; GABOR FILTER; GABOR FILTERING; HOLISTIC; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN FACE IMAGE; HUMAN FACES; HUMAN-COMPUTER; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; PERCEPTUAL FEATURE; RESEARCH AREAS; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

DIFFUSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; TERRORISM;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052062015     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2010.2051328     Document Type: Article

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