Pseudo-Gabor wavelet for face recognition

Xudong Xie; Wentao Liu; Kin-Man Lam

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.22.2.023029

21 June 2013 Pseudo-Gabor wavelet for face recognition

Xudong Xie, Wentao Liu, Kin-Man Lam

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 023029 (June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.22.2.023029

Abstract

An efficient face-recognition algorithm is proposed, which not only possesses the advantages of linear subspace analysis approaches—such as low computational complexity—but also has the advantage of a high recognition performance with the wavelet-based algorithms. Based on the linearity of Gabor-wavelet transformation and some basic assumptions on face images, we can extract pseudo-Gabor features from the face images without performing any complex Gabor-wavelet transformations. The computational complexity can therefore be reduced while a high recognition performance is still maintained by using the principal component analysis (PCA) method. The proposed algorithm is evaluated based on the Yale database, the Caltech database, the ORL database, the AR database, and the Facial Recognition Technology database, and is compared with several different face recognition methods such as PCA, Gabor wavelets plus PCA, kernel PCA, locality preserving projection, and dual-tree complex wavelet transformation plus PCA. Experiments show that consistent and promising results are obtained.

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Xudong Xie, Wentao Liu, and Kin-Man Lam "Pseudo-Gabor wavelet for face recognition," Journal of Electronic Imaging 22(2), 023029 (21 June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.22.2.023029

Published: 21 June 2013

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