Long range cross-spectral face recognition: Matching SWIR against visible light images

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1717-1726

  Nicolo, Francesco ^a   Schmid, Natalia A ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Gabor wavelets; generalized local binary pattern; heterogeneous face matching; I divergence; simplified Weber local descriptor; SWIR

Indexed keywords

FACE MATCHING; GABOR WAVELETS; I-DIVERGENCE; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; LOCAL DESCRIPTORS; SWIR;

FACE RECOGNITION;

COLOR MATCHING;

EID: 84870274553     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2012.2213813     Document Type: Article

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