Evaluation of image resolution and super-resolution on face recognition performance

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-93

  Fookes, Clinton ^a   Lin, Frank ^a   Chandran, Vinod ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eigenface; Elastic bunch graph matching; Evaluation framework; Face recognition; Hallucination; Image resolution; Principal component analysis; Robust optical flow; Super resolution; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EIGENFACES; ELASTIC BUNCH GRAPH MATCHING; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; HALLUCINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SUPER RESOLUTION;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 80053175040     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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