Impact of out-of-focus blur on face recognition performance based on modular transfer function

Proceedings - 2012 5th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-90

  Hua, Fang ^a   Johnson, Peter ^a   Sazonova, Nadezhda ^b   Lopez Meyer, Paulo ^b   Schuckers, Stephanie ^a  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; CO-LOCATED; DATA SETS; DEGRADED IMAGES; FACE RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; FOCAL PLANE; IMAGE BLUR; OUT-OF-FOCUS BLUR; QUALITY METRICES; QUALITY METRICS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

BIOMETRICS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84866787727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICB.2012.6199763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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