A comparative study on illumination preprocessing in face recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1691-1699

  Han, Hu ^a,b   Shan, Shiguang ^a   Chen, Xilin ^a   Gao, Wen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Band integration; Comparative study; Face recognition; Holistic approach; Illumination preprocessing; Illumination insensitive; Localized approach

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FACE DATABASE; HOLISTIC APPROACH; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; ILLUMINATION-INSENSITIVE; LOCALIZED APPROACH; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; PREPROCESSING APPROACHES; REFLECTANCE FIELDS; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES;

INTEGRATION; INTERCALATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84873185749     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.11.022     Document Type: Article

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