An enhanced thermal face recognition method based on multiscale complex fusion for Gabor coefficients

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2339-2358

  Wang, Ning ^a   Li, Qiong ^a   Abd El Latif, Ahmed A ^a,b   Peng, Jialiang ^a,c   Niu, Xiamu ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^c HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex Gabor Jet Descriptor; Complex LDA; Feature level fusion; Multiscale; Thermal face recognition

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

COMPLEX LDA; DESCRIPTORS; FACE RECOGNITION METHODS; FEATURE LEVEL FUSION; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MULTISCALE; REAL AND IMAGINARY; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84879257322     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-013-1551-4     Document Type: Article

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