Illumination preprocessing for face images based on empirical mode decomposition

Signal Processing

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 250-257

  Xie, Xiaohua ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Shenzhen VisuCA Key Lab   (China)

Author keywords

Empirical Mode Decomposition; Face recognition; Face relighting; Face restoration; Illumination normalization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; FACE RELIGHTING; ILLUMINATION INSENSITIVE; ILLUMINATION NORMALIZATION; ILLUMINATION PREPROCESSINGS; INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS; NONSTATIONARY SIGNALS; PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84901190409     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2013.11.038     Document Type: Article

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