Wavelet-based illumination invariant preprocessing in face recognition

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Goh, Yi Zheng ^a   Teoh, Andrew Beng Jin ^b   Goh, Kah Ong Michael ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACE DATABASE; FACE FEATURES; FACE IMAGES; GENERIC MODELS; ILLUMINATION COMPONENTS; ILLUMINATION INVARIANT; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; REFLECTANCE COMPONENTS; SUB-BANDS;

REFLECTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 80455173653     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3112004     Document Type: Article

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