Part-based face recognition using near infrared images

Ke Pan, Shengcai Liao, Zhijian Zhang, Stan Z. Li, Peiren Zhang

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Abstract

Recently, we developed NIR based face recognition for highly accurate face recognition under illumination variations [10]. In this paper, we present a part-based method for improving its robustness with respect to pose variations. An NIR face is decomposed into parts. A part classifier is built for each part, using the most discriminative LBP histogram features selected byAdaBoost learning. The outputs of part classifiers are fused to give the final score. Experiments show that the present method outperforms the whole face-based method [10] by 4.53%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR'07
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR'07 - Minneapolis, MN, United States
Duration: Jun 17 2007Jun 22 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference2007 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR'07
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMinneapolis, MN
Period6/17/076/22/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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