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Image factorization and feature fusion for enhancing robot vision in human face recognition

  • Hui Yu*
  • , Zhaojie Ju
  • , Honghai Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Portsmouth

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Abstract

Illumination variation has been a challenging problem for face recognition in robot vision. To reduce the effect caused by illumination variation, a lot of studies have been explored. The Total Variation (TV) method is particular used to factorize images into a low frequency component and a high frequency one. However, the low frequency component still contains significant intrinsic features resulting in failure in face recognition in some cases. In this paper, we propose to further extract illumination invariant features from face images under uncontrolled varying lighting conditions. The Nonsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) method is employed to enhance the extraction of intrinsic feature. The combined factorization model is very effective in the experiment on the Yale database.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages981-986
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479914845
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 6 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Conference

Conference2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/07/1411/07/14

Keywords

  • contourlet transform
  • face recognition
  • feature fusion
  • image factorization
  • robot vision
  • total variation

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