• DocumentCode
    1405044
  • Title

    Weighting Estimation for Texture-Based Face Recognition Using the Fisher Discriminant

  • Author

    Feitosa, Raul Queiroz ; Oliveira, Dário Augusto Borges ; de Lima Veiga Filho, Alvaro ; Brito, Raphael Pithan ; de Pinho, Jose Luiz Buonomo ; Censi, Antonio Carlos

  • Author_Institution
    Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    31
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    Texture-based automatic face recognition (AFR) methods find global similarities between two faces by computing their local regional similarities. A novel method based on Fisher discriminant analysis is proposed to estimate each region´s contribution to the global similarity score. Experimental results show that the method considerably improves recognition performance for texture-based AFR.
  • Keywords
    face recognition; image texture; statistical analysis; Fisher discriminant analysis; texture-based face recognition; weighting estimation; Databases; Encoding; Estimation; Face recognition; Histograms; Pixel; Quantization; Biometrics; face recognition; local binary pattern; local phase quantization; scientific computing; software;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1521-9615
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.2010.150
  • Filename
    5669242