Class-specific kernel fusion of multiple descriptors for face verification using multiscale binarised statistical image features

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2100-2109

  Arashloo, Shervin Rahimzadeh ^a   Kittler, Josef ^b  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

binarized statistical image features; class specific kernel discriminant analysis; descriptor fusion; Face verification

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DESCRIPTORS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FACE VERIFICATION; KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; LOCAL PHASE QUANTIZATIONS; SPECTRAL REGRESSIONS; STATISTICAL IMAGES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84911089461     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2359587     Document Type: Article

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