Title
Weighted contourlet binary patterns and image-based fisher linear discriminant for face recognition
Abstract
We propose a novel face representation model, called the weighted Contourlet binary patterns (WCBP), based on the NonSubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT), for face recognition. The decomposition using NSCT can capture rich image information at multiple scales, orientations, and frequency bands. This guarantees its robustness to illumination and expression variations. The weighting scheme embeds different discriminative powers of each NSCT-decomposed image. We also propose to carry out a subsequent Fisher linear Discriminant (FLD) on each decomposed image (named as WCBP+FLD) for dimension reduction of features. Our extensive experiments on the public FERET, CAS-PEAL-R1 and LFW databases demonstrate that the non-weighted Contourlet binary patterns performs better than local Gabor binary patterns. WCBP further improves the recognition rates. WCBP+FLD can achieve much competitive or even better recognition performance compared with the state-of-the-art Gabor feature based face recognition methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neucom.2017.06.045
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
NonSubsampled contourlet transform,Local binary patterns,Gabor wavelet,Fisher separation criterion
Weighting,Dimensionality reduction,Gabor wavelet,Local binary patterns,Artificial intelligence,Discriminative model,Contourlet,Facial recognition system,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Linear discriminant analysis,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
267
0925-2312
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
41
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li W112712.48
Yichuan Wang27411.12
Zhen Xu35018.31
Jiang Y4142.63
Lu ZQ5479.45
QM646472.05