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Face Recognition Using Histograms of Multi-resolution Segments Based on Discriminant Face Descriptor

판별 얼굴 기술자 기반의 다중 해상도 분할 영역 히스토그램을 이용한 얼굴인식 방법

  • Lee, Jang-yoon (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Lee, Yonggeol (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Choi, Sang-Il (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dankook University)
  • Received : 2015.08.20
  • Accepted : 2016.01.21
  • Published : 2016.02.25
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Abstract

We propose a face recognition method using the histograms of multi-resolution segments in order to effectively utilize the local information of faces. Since the variations in faces can occur in various sizes, the DFD method, which uses the histograms from the sub-regions of the same size, is not effective for obtaining local information of faces. In this paper, we first divide an image into several sub-regions and extract the DFD(Discriminant Face Descriptor) from each sub-region. By dividing each sub-region into several segments with multi-resolution and extracting histograms for each segment, we reduce the loss of local information in the process of recognition. The experimental results for the Yale B, AR, CAS-PEAL-R1 databases show that the proposed method improves the recognition performance compared to the existing DFD based method.

본 논문에서는 얼굴 영상의 지역 정보를 효과적으로 활용하기 위해, 부분 영상에 대한 다중 해상도 히스토그램을 이용한 얼굴 인식 방법을 제안한다. 기존 DFD의 경우 단일 크기로 나누어진 부분 영역의 히스토그램을 통합하여 유사도를 비교하나, 이는 부분 가림이나 조명변이로 인해 변형된 영역이 단일 부분 영역 내에서 발생하지 않고 여러 개의 부분 영역에 걸쳐 발생할 수 있기 때문에, 지역 정보들의 특성을 활용하는 데에 효과적이지 못하다. 본 논문에서는 각각의 부분 영역에 대해 다중 해상도로 분할하여 여러 종류의 크기에 해당하는 부영역의 히스토그램을 사용함으로써, 인식 과정에서 지역 정보의 손실을 최소화하고자 하였다. YaleB, AR, CAS-PEAL-R1 데이터베이스에 대해 인식 실험을 수행한 결과, 제안한 방법이 여러 종류의 변이가 있는 경우에 인식 성능을 향상시키는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

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