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Face Illumination Normalization based on Illumination-Separated Face Identity Texture Subspace (조명영향 분리 얼굴 고유특성 텍스쳐 부분공간 기반 얼굴 이미지 조명 정규화)

  • Choi, Jong-Keun;Chung, Sun-Tae;Cho, Seong-Won
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.25-34
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    • 2010
  • Robust face recognition under various illumination environments is difficult to achieve. For robust face recognition with respect to illumination variations, illumination normalization of face images is usually applied as a preprocessing step. Most of previously proposed illumination normalization methods cannot handle cast shadows in face images effectively. In this paper, We propose a new face illumination normalization method based on the illumination-separated face identity texture subspace. Since the face identity texture subspace is constructed so as to be separated from the effects of illumination variations, the projection of face images into the subspace produces a good illumination-normalized face images. Through experiments, it is shown that the proposed face illumination normalization method can effectively eliminate cast shadows as well as attached shadows and achieves a good face illumination normalization.

Face Image Illumination Normalization based on Illumination-Separated Eigenface Subspace (조명분리 고유얼굴 부분공간 기반 얼굴 이미지 조명 정규화)

  • Seol, Tae-in;Chung, Sun-Tae;Ki, Sunho;Cho, Seongwon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.179-184
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    • 2009
  • Robust face recognition under various illumination environments is difficult to achieve. For face recognition robust to illumination changes, usually face images are normalized with respect to illumination as a preprocessing step before face recognition. The anisotropic smoothing-based illumination normalization method, known to be one of the best illumination normalization methods, cannot handle casting shadows. In this paper, we present an efficient illumination normalization method for face recognition. The proposed illumination normalization method separates the effect of illumination from eigenfaces and constructs an illumination-separated eigenface subspace. Then, an incoming face image is projected into the subspace and the obtained projected face image is rendered so that illumination effects including casting shadows are reduced as much as possible. Application to real face images shows the proposed illumination normalization method.

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Improvement of Face Recognition Rate by Normalization of Facial Expression (표정 정규화를 통한 얼굴 인식율 개선)

  • Kim, Jin-Ok
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.15B no.5
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    • pp.477-486
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    • 2008
  • Facial expression, which changes face geometry, usually has an adverse effect on the performance of a face recognition system. To improve the face recognition rate, we propose a normalization method of facial expression to diminish the difference of facial expression between probe and gallery faces. Two approaches are used to facial expression modeling and normalization from single still images using a generic facial muscle model without the need of large image databases. The first approach estimates the geometry parameters of linear muscle models to obtain a biologically inspired model of the facial expression which may be changed intuitively afterwards. The second approach uses RBF(Radial Basis Function) based interpolation and warping to normalize the facial muscle model as unexpressed face according to the given expression. As a preprocessing stage for face recognition, these approach could achieve significantly higher recognition rates than in the un-normalized case based on the eigenface approach, local binary patterns and a grey-scale correlation measure.

Face Recognition under Varying Pose using Local Area obtained by Side-view Pose Normalization (측면 포즈정규화를 통한 부분 영역을 이용한 포즈 변화에 강인한 얼굴 인식)

  • Ahn, Byeong-Doo;Ko, Han-Seok
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.42 no.4 s.304
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes a face recognition under varying poses using local area obtained by side-view pose normalization. General normalization methods for face recognition under varying pose have a problem with the information about invisible area of face. Generally this problem is solved by compensation, but there are many cases where the image is distorted or features lost due to compensation .To solve this problem we normalize the face pose in side-view to reduce distortion that happens mainly in areas that have large depth variation. We only use undistorted area, removing the area that has been distorted by normalization. We consider two cases of yaw pose variation and pitch pose variation, and by experiments, we confirm the improvement of recognition performance.

3D Face Alignment and Normalization Based on Feature Detection Using Active Shape Models : Quantitative Analysis on Aligning Process (ASMs을 이용한 특징점 추출에 기반한 3D 얼굴데이터의 정렬 및 정규화 : 정렬 과정에 대한 정량적 분석)

  • Shin, Dong-Won;Park, Sang-Jun;Ko, Jae-Pil
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.403-411
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    • 2008
  • The alignment of facial images is crucial for 2D face recognition. This is the same to facial meshes for 3D face recognition. Most of the 3D face recognition methods refer to 3D alignment but do not describe their approaches in details. In this paper, we focus on describing an automatic 3D alignment in viewpoint of quantitative analysis. This paper presents a framework of 3D face alignment and normalization based on feature points obtained by Active Shape Models (ASMs). The positions of eyes and mouth can give possibility of aligning the 3D face exactly in three-dimension space. The rotational transform on each axis is defined with respect to the reference position. In aligning process, the rotational transform converts an input 3D faces with large pose variations to the reference frontal view. The part of face is flopped from the aligned face using the sphere region centered at the nose tip of 3D face. The cropped face is shifted and brought into the frame with specified size for normalizing. Subsequently, the interpolation is carried to the face for sampling at equal interval and filling holes. The color interpolation is also carried at the same interval. The outputs are normalized 2D and 3D face which can be used for face recognition. Finally, we carry two sets of experiments to measure aligning errors and evaluate the performance of suggested process.

Normalization of Face Images Subject to Directional Illumination using Linear Model (선형모델을 이용한 방향성 조명하의 얼굴영상 정규화)

  • 고재필;김은주;변혜란
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 2004
  • Face recognition is one of the problems to be solved by appearance based matching technique. However, the appearance of face image is very sensitive to variation in illumination. One of the easiest ways for better performance is to collect more training samples acquired under variable lightings but it is not practical in real world. ]:n object recognition, it is desirable to focus on feature extraction or normalization technique rather than focus on classifier. This paper presents a simple approach to normalization of faces subject to directional illumination. This is one of the significant issues that cause error in the face recognition process. The proposed method, ICR(illumination Compensation based on Multiple Linear Regression), is to find the plane that best fits the intensity distribution of the face image using the multiple linear regression, then use this plane to normalize the face image. The advantages of our method are simple and practical. The planar approximation of a face image is mathematically defined by the simple linear model. We provide experimental results to demonstrate the performance of the proposed ICR method on public face databases and our database. The experimental results show a significant improvement of the recognition accuracy.

Robustness of Face Recognition to Variations of Illumination on Mobile Devices Based on SVM

  • Nam, Gi-Pyo;Kang, Byung-Jun;Park, Kang-Ryoung
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.25-44
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    • 2010
  • With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, it has become necessary to protect private information and content in these devices. Face recognition has been favored over conventional passwords or security keys, because it can be easily implemented using a built-in camera, while providing user convenience. However, because mobile devices can be used both indoors and outdoors, there can be many illumination changes, which can reduce the accuracy of face recognition. Therefore, we propose a new face recognition method on a mobile device robust to illumination variations. This research makes the following four original contributions. First, we compared the performance of face recognition with illumination variations on mobile devices for several illumination normalization procedures suitable for mobile devices with low processing power. These include the Retinex filter, histogram equalization and histogram stretching. Second, we compared the performance for global and local methods of face recognition such as PCA (Principal Component Analysis), LNMF (Local Non-negative Matrix Factorization) and LBP (Local Binary Pattern) using an integer-based kernel suitable for mobile devices having low processing power. Third, the characteristics of each method according to the illumination va iations are analyzed. Fourth, we use two matching scores for several methods of illumination normalization, Retinex and histogram stretching, which show the best and $2^{nd}$ best performances, respectively. These are used as the inputs of an SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier, which can increase the accuracy of face recognition. Experimental results with two databases (data collected by a mobile device and the AR database) showed that the accuracy of face recognition achieved by the proposed method was superior to that of other methods.

A Study on Appearance-Based Facial Expression Recognition Using Active Shape Model (Active Shape Model을 이용한 외형기반 얼굴표정인식에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Ju;Shin, Jeong-Hoon
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2016
  • This paper introduces an appearance-based facial expression recognition method using ASM landmarks which is used to acquire a detailed face region. In particular, EHMM-based algorithm and SVM classifier with histogram feature are employed to appearance-based facial expression recognition, and performance evaluation of proposed method was performed with CK and JAFFE facial expression database. In addition, performance comparison was achieved through comparison with distance-based face normalization method and a geometric feature-based facial expression approach which employed geometrical features of ASM landmarks and SVM algorithm. As a result, the proposed method using ASM-based face normalization showed performance improvements of 6.39% and 7.98% compared to previous distance-based face normalization method for CK database and JAFFE database, respectively. Also, the proposed method showed higher performance compared to geometric feature-based facial expression approach, and we confirmed an effectiveness of proposed method.

Automatic 3D Head Pose-Normalization using 2D and 3D Interaction (자동 3차원 얼굴 포즈 정규화 기법)

  • Yu, Sun-Jin;Kim, Joong-Rock;Lee, Sang-Youn
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.211-212
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    • 2007
  • Pose-variation factors present a significant problem in 2D face recognition. To solve this problem, there are various approaches for a 3D face acquisition system which was able to generate multi-view images. However, this created another pose estimation problem in terms of normalizing the 3D face data. This paper presents a 3D head pose-normalization method using 2D and 3D interaction. The proposed method uses 2D information with the AAM(Active Appearance Model) and 3D information with a 3D normal vector. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method, we designed an experiment using 2.5D face recognition. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is robust against pose variation.

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An Efficient Illumination Preprocessing Algorithm based on Anisotropic Smoothing for Face Recognition (얼굴 인식을 위한 Anisotropic Smoothing 기반 효율적 조명 전처리)

  • Kim, Sang-Hoon;Jung, Sou-Hwan;Cho, Seong-Won;Chung, Sun-Tae
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.236-245
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    • 2008
  • Robust face recognition under various illumination environments is very difficult and needs to be accomplished for successful commercialization. In this paper, we propose an efficient illumination preprocessing method for face recognition. illumination preprocessing algorithm based on anisotropic smoothing is well known to be effective among illumination normalization methods but deteriorates the intensity contrast of the original image, and incurs less sharp edges. The proposed method in this paper improves the previous anisotropic smoothing based illumination normalization method so that it increases the intensity contrast and enhances the edges while diminishing effects of illumination. Due to the result of these improvements, face images preprocessed by the proposed illumination preprocessing method becomes to have more distinctive feature vectors(Gabor feature vectors). Through experiments of face recognition using Gabor jet similarity, the effectiveness of the proposed illumination preprocessing method is verified.