Title
An Illumination Invariant Face Recognition Scheme to Combining Normalized Structural Descriptor with Single Scale Retinex.
Abstract
Illumination variation is still a challenging issue to address in face recognition. Retinex scheme is effective to face images under small illumination variation, but its performance drop when illumination variation is large. We further analyze the normalized images under large illumination variation and we find that the illumination variation has not been removed thoroughly in these images. Structural similarity is one of image similarity metrics similar to human perception. From SSIM, we extract the structure related component and name it as Normalized Structure Descriptor. It is clear that NSD is robust to illumination variation. We propose a scheme to combining Normalized Structural Descriptor with Single Scale Retinex. In our scheme NSD is extracted from the normalized image from SSR. And the face recognition is performed by the similarity of NSD. The experimental results on the Yale Face Database B and Extended Yale Face Database B show that our approach has performance comparable to state-of-the-art approaches. © Springer International Publishing 2013.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-319-02961-0_5
CCBR
Keywords
Field
DocType
face recognition,illumination variation,normalized structural descriptor (nsd),single scale retinex (ssr)
Color constancy,Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Normalization (statistics),Pattern recognition,Single scale retinex,Computer science,Invariant (mathematics),Artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8232 LNCS
null
16113349
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lifang Wu18222.35
Peng Zhou2659.65
Xiao Xu313.39