Very low resolution face recognition problem

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 327-340

  Zou, Wilman W W ^a   Yuen, Pong C ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Face recognition; face super resolution (SR); relationship learning; very low resolution (VLR)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SYSTEMS; FACE DATABASE; FACE IMAGES; FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; FACE SUPER-RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGE SPACE; LOW RESOLUTION; RELATIONSHIP LEARNING;

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84255177518     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2162423     Document Type: Article

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