Regularized kernel discriminant analysis with a robust kernel for face recognition and verification

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 526-534

  Zafeiriou, Stefanos ^a   Tzimiropoulos, Georgios ^a,b   Petrou, Maria ^c   Stathaki, Tania ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Eigenspectrum regularization; face recognition; kernel discriminant analysis; robust kernel

Indexed keywords

EIGENSPECTRUM; FACE RECOGNITION/VERIFICATION; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; KERNEL-BASED FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBUST KERNEL; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; WITHIN-CLASS SCATTER MATRIX;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84868032803     PISSN: 2162237X     EISSN: 21622388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2011.2182058     Document Type: Article

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