Good match exploration for thermal infrared face recognition based on YWF-SIFT with multi-scale fusion

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-97

  Bai, Junfeng ^a   Ma, Yong ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Fang, Yu ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Wang, Hongyuan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Feature matching; Image fusion; Multi scale fusion; Thermal infrared image

Indexed keywords

IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE MATCHING; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION;

FEATURE CORRESPONDENCE; FEATURE MATCHING; HUMAN FACE RECOGNITION; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; LOCAL FEATURE DETECTIONS; MULTISCALE FUSION; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGES; THERMAL INFRARED;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84905407824     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2014.06.010     Document Type: Article

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