Simultaneous Hallucination and Recognition of Low-Resolution Faces Based on Singular Value Decomposition

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1761-1772

  Jian, Muwei ^a,b   Lam, Kin Man ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Face hallucination; low resolution (LR) face recognition; mapping model; singular value decomposition (SVD)

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MAPPING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; FACE HALLUCINATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LINEAR RELATION; LOW RESOLUTION; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; MAPPING MODEL; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84960481499     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2400772     Document Type: Article

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