Fusing frequency, spatial and color features for face recognition

Zhiming Liu, Chengjun Liu

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Abstract

This paper presents a face recognition method by fusing the frequency, spatial and color features for improving the face recognition grand challenge performance. In particular, the frequency features are extracted from the magnitude, the real and imaginary parts in the frequency domain of an image; the spatial features are derived from two different scales of a face image; and the color features are from a new hybrid color space, namely, the RIQ color space. Specifically, every color component in the RIQ color space has two scales: Scale 1 image and Scale 2 image (with a larger face region). First, the frequency feature extraction procedure applies to all the Scale 1 and Scale 2 color component images. Then, an improved Fisher model extracts discriminating features from the frequency data for similarity computation using a cosine similarity measure. Finally, the similarity scores from the three component images in the RIQ color space are fused by means of a weighted summation at the decision level for the overall similarity computation. Experiments on the Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) version 2 Experiment 4 show that the proposed method achieves the face verification rate (corresponding to the ROC III curve) of 82.8% at the false accept rate of 0.1%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBTAS 2008 - IEEE 2nd International Conference on Biometrics
Subtitle of host publicationTheory, Applications and Systems
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventBTAS 2008 - IEEE 2nd International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems - Arlington, VA, United States
Duration: Sep 29 2008Oct 1 2008

Publication series

NameBTAS 2008 - IEEE 2nd International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems

Other

OtherBTAS 2008 - IEEE 2nd International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityArlington, VA
Period9/29/0810/1/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biotechnology

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