Abstract
Human face recognition has been researched for the last three decades. Face recognition with thermal images now attracts significant attention since they can be used in low/none illuminated environment. However, thermal face recognition performance is still insufficient for practical applications. One main reason is that most existing work leverage only single feature to characterize a face in a thermal image. To solve the problem, we propose multi-feature fusion, a technique that combines multiple features in thermal face characterization and recognition. In this work, we designed a systematical way to combine four features, including Local binary pattern, Gabor jet descriptor, Weber local descriptor and Down-sampling feature. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms methods that leverage only a single feature and is robust to noise, occlusion, expression, low resolution and differentl1-minimization methods.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 366-374 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Infrared Physics and Technology |
Volume | 77 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Feature fusion
- Sparse representation
- Thermal face recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Condensed Matter Physics