Face Recognition Using Gabor-based Improved Supervised Locality Preserving Projections

A novel Gabor-based Improved Supervised Locality Preserving Projections for face recognition is presented in this paper. This new algorithm is based on a combination of Gabor wavelets representation of face images and Improved Supervised Locality Preserving Projections for face recognition and it is robust to changes in illumination and facial expressions and poses. In this paper, Gabor filter is first designed to extract the features from the whole face images, and then a supervised locality preserving projections, which is improved by two-directional 2DPCA to eliminate redundancy among Gabor features, is used to augment these Gabor feature vectors derived from Gabor wavelets representation. The new algorithm benefits mostly from two aspects: One aspect is that Gabor wavelets are promoted for their useful properties, such as invariance to illumination, rotation, scale and translations, in feature extraction. The other is that the Improved Supervised Locality Preserving Projections not only provides a category label for each class in a training set, but also reduces more coefficients for image representation from two directions and boost the recognition speed. Experiments based on the ORL face database demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the new method. Results show that our new algorithm outperforms the other popular approaches reported in the literature and achieves a much higher accurate recognition rate

Multiple Moving Object Recognitions in video based on Log Gabor-PCA Approach

Object recognition in the video sequence or images is one of the sub-field of computer vision. Moving object recognition from a video sequence is an appealing topic with applications in various areas such as airport safety, intrusion surveillance, video monitoring, intelligent highway, etc. Moving object recognition is the most challenging task in intelligent video surveillance system. In this regard, many techniques have been proposed based on different methods. Despite of its importance, moving object recognition in complex environments is still far from being completely solved for low resolution videos, foggy videos, and also dim video sequences. All in all, these make it necessary to develop exceedingly robust techniques. This paper introduces multiple moving object recognition in the video sequence based on LoG Gabor-PCA approach and Angle based distance Similarity measures techniques used to recognize the object as a human, vehicle etc. Number of experiments are conducted for indoor and outdoor video sequences of standard datasets and also our own collection of video sequences comprising of partial night vision video sequences. Experimental results show that our proposed approach achieves an excellent recognition rate. Results obtained are satisfactory and competent.Comment: 8,26,conferenc

Robust Face Representation and Recognition Under Low Resolution and Difficult Lighting Conditions

This dissertation focuses on different aspects of face image analysis for accurate face recognition under low resolution and poor lighting conditions. A novel resolution enhancement technique is proposed for enhancing a low resolution face image into a high resolution image for better visualization and improved feature extraction, especially in a video surveillance environment. This method performs kernel regression and component feature learning in local neighborhood of the face images. It uses directional Fourier phase feature component to adaptively lean the regression kernel based on local covariance to estimate the high resolution image. For each patch in the neighborhood, four directional variances are estimated to adapt the interpolated pixels. A Modified Local Binary Pattern (MLBP) methodology for feature extraction is proposed to obtain robust face recognition under varying lighting conditions. Original LBP operator compares pixels in a local neighborhood with the center pixel and converts the resultant binary string to 8-bit integer value. So, it is less effective under difficult lighting conditions where variation between pixels is negligible. The proposed MLBP uses a two stage encoding procedure which is more robust in detecting this variation in a local patch. A novel dimensionality reduction technique called Marginality Preserving Embedding (MPE) is also proposed for enhancing the face recognition accuracy. Unlike Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), which project data in a global sense, MPE seeks for a local structure in the manifold. This is similar to other subspace learning techniques but the difference with other manifold learning is that MPE preserves marginality in local reconstruction. Hence it provides better representation in low dimensional space and achieves lower error rates in face recognition. Two new concepts for robust face recognition are also presented in this dissertation. In the first approach, a neural network is used for training the system where input vectors are created by measuring distance from each input to its class mean. In the second approach, half-face symmetry is used, realizing the fact that the face images may contain various expressions such as open/close eye, open/close mouth etc., and classify the top half and bottom half separately and finally fuse the two results. By performing experiments on several standard face datasets, improved results were observed in all the new proposed methodologies. Research is progressing in developing a unified approach for the extraction of features suitable for accurate face recognition in a long range video sequence in complex environments

Face Image Retrieval in Image Processing – A Survey

The task of face recognition has been actively researched in recent years. Face recognition has been a challenging and interesting area in real time applications. With the exponentially growing images, large-scale content-based face image retrieval is an enabling technology for many emerging applications. A large number of face recognition algorithms have been developed in last decades. In this paper an attempt is made to review a wide range of methods used for face recognition comprehensively. Here first we present an overview of face recognition and discuss the methodology and its functioning. Thereafter we represent the most recent face recognition techniques listing their advantages and disadvantages. Some techniques specified here also improve the efficiency of face recognition under various illumination and expression condition of face images This include PCA, LDA, SVM, Gabor wavelet soft computing tool like ANN for recognition and various hybrid combination of these techniques. This review investigates all these methods with parameters that challenges face recognition like illumination, pose variation, facial expressions. This paper also focuses on related work done in the area of face image retrieval