Robust face recognition for uncontrolled pose and illumination changes

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 149-163

  De Marsico, Maria ^a   Nappi, Michele ^b   Riccio, Daniel ^b   Wechsler, Harry ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Correlation index; Face recognition; Identity management; Image quality index; Interoperability; Pose and illumination changes; Reliability indices

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; CORRELATION INDEX; IDENTITY MANAGEMENT; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; IMAGE QUALITY INDEX; RELIABILITY INDEX;

BIOMETRICS; DATA FUSION; FISH; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEROPERABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RELIABILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84887123763     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2192427     Document Type: Article

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