Face recognition using ordinal features

Shengcai Liao, Zhen Lei, Xiangxin Zhu, Zhenan Sun, Stan Z. Li, Tieniu Tan

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an ordinal feature based method for face recognition. Ordinal features are used to represent faces. Hamming distance of many local sub-windows is computed to evaluate differences of two ordinal faces. AdaBoost learning is finally applied to select most effective hamming distance based weak classifiers and build a powerful classifier. Experiments demonstrate good results for face recognition on the FERET database, and the power of learning ordinal features for face recognition.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Biometrics - International Conference, ICB 2006, Proceedings
Pages40-46
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Jan 5 2006Jan 7 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3832 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period1/5/061/7/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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