Census histograms: A simple feature extraction and matching approach for face recognition

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1337-1348

  Chiachia, Giovani ^a   Marana, Aparecido Nilceu ^a   Ruf, Tobias ^b   Ernst, Andreas ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

census transform; Face recognition; feature extraction; histogram matching; local binary patterns

Indexed keywords

CENSUS TRANSFORM; FACE RECOGNITION TECHNIQUE; HISTOGRAM MATCHING; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; LOCAL HISTOGRAM; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; TEST SETS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84855402157     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001411009068     Document Type: Article

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