Illumination invariant face recognition

A. Z. Kouzani*, F. He, K. Sammut, A. Bouzerdoum

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Abstract

Few of the face recognition methods reported in the literature are capable of recognizing faces under varying illumination conditions. This paper discusses a new method which can achieve a higher recognition rate than those obtained for existing methods. The novelty of this new method is the use of an embossing technique to process a face image before presenting it to a standard face recognition system. Using a large database of face images, the performance of the proposed method is evaluated by comparing it against the performances of three existing methods. The experimental results demonstrate the successfulness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4240-4245
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Volume5
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part 3 (of 5) - San Diego, CA, USA
Duration: 11 Oct 199814 Oct 1998

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