Cross-pollination of normalization techniques from speaker to face authentication using Gaussian mixture models

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 553-562

  Wallace, Roy ^a   McLaren, Mitchell ^b   McCool, Christopher ^a   Marcel, Sébastien ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biometrics; face authentication; face recognition; feature warping; Gaussian mixture modeling; score normalization

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; ERROR RATE; FACE AUTHENTICATION; FEATURE NORMALIZATION; FEATURE WARPING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING; SCORE NORMALIZATION;

BIOMETRICS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

AUTHENTICATION;

EID: 84858388270     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2012.2184095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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