摘要
The extraction of stable local features directly affects the performance of infrared face recognition al- gorithms. Recent studies on the application of scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) to infrared face recognition show that star-styled window filter (SWF) can filter out errors incorrectly introduced by SIFT. The current letter proposes an improved filter pattern called Y-styled window filter (YWF) to further elim- inate the wrong matches. Compared with SWF, YWF patterns are sparser and do not maintain rotation invariance; thus, they are more suitable to infrared face recognition. Our experimental results demonstrate that a YWF-based averaging window outperforms an SWF-based one in reducing wrong matches, therefore
The extraction of stable local features directly affects the performance of infrared face recognition al- gorithms. Recent studies on the application of scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) to infrared face recognition show that star-styled window filter (SWF) can filter out errors incorrectly introduced by SIFT. The current letter proposes an improved filter pattern called Y-styled window filter (YWF) to further elim- inate the wrong matches. Compared with SWF, YWF patterns are sparser and do not maintain rotation invariance; thus, they are more suitable to infrared face recognition. Our experimental results demonstrate that a YWF-based averaging window outperforms an SWF-based one in reducing wrong matches, therefore
基金
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province under Grant No. 2009CDB320