Title
Illumination insensitive recognition using eigenspaces
Abstract
Variations in illumination can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of an object in an image. In this paper, we propose how to deal with illumination variations in eigenspace methods. We demonstrate that the eigenimages obtained by a training set under a single illumination condition (ambient light) can be used for recognition of objects taken under different illumination conditions. The major idea is to incorporate a gradient based filter bank into the eigenspace recognition framework. We show that the eigenimage coefficients are invariant to linear filtering (input and eigenimages are filtered with same filters). To achieve further illumination insensitivity we devised a robust procedure for coefficient recovery. The proposed approach has been extensively evaluated on a set of 4932 images and the results were compared to other approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.cviu.2004.01.002
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Keywords
Field
DocType
ambient light,illumination insensitive recognition,dramatic effect,different illumination condition,eigenspace method,eigenimage coefficient,illumination insensitivity,single illumination condition,illumination variation,coefficient recovery,eigenspace recognition framework,linear filtering,filter bank
Training set,Computer vision,Linear filter,Filter bank,Artificial intelligence,Invariant (mathematics),Eigenvalues and eigenvectors,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
95
1
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.83
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Horst Bischof18751541.43
Horst Wildenauer212612.81
Aleš Leonardis31347103.77