• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.784-791
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• 2004

In this study, we deal with face recognition using fuzzy-based Fisherface method. The well-known Fisherface method is more insensitive to large variation in light direction, face pose, and facial expression than Principal Component Analysis method. Usually, the various methods of face recognition including Fisherface method give equal importance in determining the face to be recognized, regardless of typicalness. The main point here is that the proposed method assigns a feature vector transformed by PCA to fuzzy membership rather than assigning the vector to particular class. In this method, fuzzy membership degrees are obtained from FKNN(Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbor) initialization. Experimental results show better recognition performance than other methods for ORL and Yale face databases.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.94-98
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• 2009

In this paper, we deal with a face recognition method for the emotional face images. Since the face recognition is one of the most natural and straightforward biometric methods, there have been various research works. However, most of them are focused on the expressionless face images and have had a very difficult problem if we consider the facial expression. In real situations, however, it is required to consider the emotional face images. Here, three basic human emotions such as happiness, sadness, and anger are investigated for the face recognition. And, this situation requires a robust face recognition algorithm then we use a fuzzy Fisher's Linear Discriminant (FLD) algorithm with the wavelet transform. The fuzzy Fisherface is a statistical method that maximizes the ratio of between-scatter matrix and within-scatter matrix and also handles the fuzzy class information. The experimental results obtained for the CBNU face databases reveal that the approach presented in this paper yields better recognition performance in comparison with the results obtained by other recognition methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.430-433
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 얼굴인식을 위해 기존의 Fisherfaces와 퍼지개념을 도입한 퍼지 기반 Fisherfaces 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 얼굴인식 방법들은 학습영상에 해당되는 각 특징벡터에 대해 특정한 클래스를 할당하지만, 이와는 달리 제안된 방법은 각 특징벡터에 대해 퍼지 값으로 된 클래스 소속도를 부여하여 조명의 방향, 얼굴표정과 같은 큰 변화에 민감하지 않으면서도 닮은 얼굴 영상으로 인해 생기는 오분류(misclassification)의 문제점을 해결하고자 한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 ORL(Olivetti Research Laboratory) 얼굴 데이터 베이스에 대해 적용하여 이전의 연구인 Eigenfaces와 Fisherfaces보다 더 좋은 인식성능을 보이고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.364-367
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• 2003

In this study, we develop a method for recognizing face images by combining wavelet decomposition, fisherface method, and fuzzy integral. The proposed approach comprises of four main stages. The first stage uses the wavelet decomposition. As a result of this decomposition, we obtain four subimages. The second stage of the approach applies a fisherface method to these four subimage sets. The two last phases are concerned with the generation of the degree of fuzzy membership and the aggregation of the individual classifiers by means of the fuzzy integral. The experimental results obtained for the CNU and Yale face databases reveal that the approach presented in this study yields better classification performance in comparison to the results produced by other classifiers.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.437-443
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• 2015

This paper presents face recognition based on the fusion of visible image and thermal infrared (IR) texture estimated from the face image in the visible spectrum. The proposed face recognition scheme uses a multi- layer neural network to estimate thermal texture from visible imagery. In the training process, a set of visible and thermal IR image pairs are used to determine the parameters of the neural network to learn a complex mapping from a visible image to its thermal texture in the low-dimensional feature space. The trained neural network estimates the principal components of the thermal texture corresponding to the input visible image. Extensive experiments on face recognition were performed using two popular face recognition algorithms, Eigenfaces and Fisherfaces for NIST/Equinox database for benchmarking. The fusion of visible image and thermal IR texture demonstrated improved face recognition accuracies over conventional face recognition in terms of receiver operating characteristics (ROC) as well as first matching performances.