Low-resolution face recognition: A review

Visual Computer

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 359-386

  Wang, Zhifei ^a   Miao, Zhenjiang ^a   Jonathan Wu, Q M ^b   Wan, Yanli ^a   Tang, Zhen ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Feature classification; Feature extraction; Low resolution; Review; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REVIEWS;

CONCEPT DESCRIPTION; FEATURE CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; LOW RESOLUTION; QUALITY IMAGE; SUPER RESOLUTION; SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84898598698     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-013-0861-x     Document Type: Article

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