Comparing face recognition algorithms to humans on challenging tasks

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  O'Toole, Alice J ^a   An, Xiaobo ^a   Dunlop, Joseph ^a   Natu, Vaidehi ^a   Phillips, P Jonathon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Human machine comparisons

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; APPEARANCE-BASED RECOGNITION; FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; HUMAN-MACHINE; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS; UNCONTROLLED ILLUMINATION; VARIABLE ILLUMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPETITION; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878476400     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2355598.2355599     Document Type: Article

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