International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
This paper describes for a robust face recognition system using skin segmentation technique. This paper addresses the problem of detecting faces in color images in the presence of various lighting conditions. In this paper the face is preprocessed using histogram equalization to avoid illumination problems and then is detected using skin segmentation method. The principal component analysis using neural network is used to recognize the extracted facial features.
An Accurate Facial Component Detection Using Gabor FilterjournalBEEI
Face detection is a critical task to be resolved in a variety of applications. Since faces include various expressions it becomes a difficult task to detect the exact output. Face detection not only play a main role in personal identification but also in various fields which includes but not limited to image processing, pattern recognition, graphics and other application areas. The proposed system performs the face detection and facial components using Gabor filter. The results show accurate detection of facial components
ABSTRACT: a rigorous work on static and dynamic appearance based classification systems for face is on but, it is proving to be a challenging task for researchers to design a proper system since human face is complex one. Decades of work was and is focussed on how to classify a face and on how to increase the rate of classification but, little attention was paid to overcome redundancy in image classification. This paper presents a novel idea which focuses on redundancy check and its elimination. The paper after drawing inferences from previous work gives out a novel idea for exact face classification and elimination of redundancy.
Medoid based model for face recognition using eigen and fisher facesijscmcj
Biometric technologies have gained a remarkable impetus in high security applications. Various biometric modalities are widely being used these days. The need for unobtrusive biometric recognition can be fulfilled through Face recognition which is the most natural and non intrusive authentication system. However the vulnerability to changes owing to variations in face due to various factors like pose,
illumination, ageing, emotions, expressions etc make it necessary to have robust face recognition systems.
Various statistical models have been developed so far with varying degree of accuracy and efficiency. This
paper discusses a new approach to utilize Eigen face and Fisher face methodology by using medoid instead
of mean as a statistic in calculating the Eigen faces and Fisher faces. The method not only requires lesser training but also demonstrates better time efficiency and performance compared to the conventional method of using mean
HVDLP : HORIZONTAL VERTICAL DIAGONAL LOCAL PATTERN BASED FACE RECOGNITION sipij
Face image is an efficient biometric trait to recognize human beings without expecting any co-operation from a person. In this paper, we propose HVDLP: Horizontal Vertical Diagonal Local Pattern based face recognition using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP). The face images of different sizes are converted into uniform size of 108×990and color images are converted to gray scale images in pre-processing. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied on pre-processed images and LL band is obtained with the size of 54×45. The Novel concept of HVDLP is introduced in the proposed method to enhance the performance. The HVDLP is applied on 9×9 sub matrix of LL band to consider HVDLP coefficients. The local Binary Pattern (LBP) is applied on HVDLP of LL band. The final features are generated by using Guided filters on HVDLP and LBP matrices. The Euclidean Distance (ED) is used to compare final features of face database and test images to compute the performance parameters.
Age Invariant Face Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network IJECEIAES
In the recent years, face recognition across aging has become very popular and challenging task in the area of face recognition. Many researchers have contributed in this area, but still there is a significant gap to fill in. Selection of feature extraction and classification algorithms plays an important role in this area. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks provides us a combination of feature extraction and classification in a single structure. In this paper, we have presented a novel idea of 7-Layer CNN architecture for solving the problem of aging for recognizing facial images across aging. We have done extensive experimentations to test the performance of the proposed system using two standard datasets FGNET and MORPH (Album II). Rank-1 recognition accuracy of our proposed system is 76.6% on FGNET and 92.5% on MORPH (Album II). Experimental results show the significant improvement over available state-of- the-arts with the proposed CNN architecture and the classifier.
This paper describes for a robust face recognition system using skin segmentation technique. This paper addresses the problem of detecting faces in color images in the presence of various lighting conditions. In this paper the face is preprocessed using histogram equalization to avoid illumination problems and then is detected using skin segmentation method. The principal component analysis using neural network is used to recognize the extracted facial features.
An Accurate Facial Component Detection Using Gabor FilterjournalBEEI
Face detection is a critical task to be resolved in a variety of applications. Since faces include various expressions it becomes a difficult task to detect the exact output. Face detection not only play a main role in personal identification but also in various fields which includes but not limited to image processing, pattern recognition, graphics and other application areas. The proposed system performs the face detection and facial components using Gabor filter. The results show accurate detection of facial components
ABSTRACT: a rigorous work on static and dynamic appearance based classification systems for face is on but, it is proving to be a challenging task for researchers to design a proper system since human face is complex one. Decades of work was and is focussed on how to classify a face and on how to increase the rate of classification but, little attention was paid to overcome redundancy in image classification. This paper presents a novel idea which focuses on redundancy check and its elimination. The paper after drawing inferences from previous work gives out a novel idea for exact face classification and elimination of redundancy.
Medoid based model for face recognition using eigen and fisher facesijscmcj
Biometric technologies have gained a remarkable impetus in high security applications. Various biometric modalities are widely being used these days. The need for unobtrusive biometric recognition can be fulfilled through Face recognition which is the most natural and non intrusive authentication system. However the vulnerability to changes owing to variations in face due to various factors like pose,
illumination, ageing, emotions, expressions etc make it necessary to have robust face recognition systems.
Various statistical models have been developed so far with varying degree of accuracy and efficiency. This
paper discusses a new approach to utilize Eigen face and Fisher face methodology by using medoid instead
of mean as a statistic in calculating the Eigen faces and Fisher faces. The method not only requires lesser training but also demonstrates better time efficiency and performance compared to the conventional method of using mean
HVDLP : HORIZONTAL VERTICAL DIAGONAL LOCAL PATTERN BASED FACE RECOGNITION sipij
Face image is an efficient biometric trait to recognize human beings without expecting any co-operation from a person. In this paper, we propose HVDLP: Horizontal Vertical Diagonal Local Pattern based face recognition using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP). The face images of different sizes are converted into uniform size of 108×990and color images are converted to gray scale images in pre-processing. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied on pre-processed images and LL band is obtained with the size of 54×45. The Novel concept of HVDLP is introduced in the proposed method to enhance the performance. The HVDLP is applied on 9×9 sub matrix of LL band to consider HVDLP coefficients. The local Binary Pattern (LBP) is applied on HVDLP of LL band. The final features are generated by using Guided filters on HVDLP and LBP matrices. The Euclidean Distance (ED) is used to compare final features of face database and test images to compute the performance parameters.
Age Invariant Face Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network IJECEIAES
In the recent years, face recognition across aging has become very popular and challenging task in the area of face recognition. Many researchers have contributed in this area, but still there is a significant gap to fill in. Selection of feature extraction and classification algorithms plays an important role in this area. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks provides us a combination of feature extraction and classification in a single structure. In this paper, we have presented a novel idea of 7-Layer CNN architecture for solving the problem of aging for recognizing facial images across aging. We have done extensive experimentations to test the performance of the proposed system using two standard datasets FGNET and MORPH (Album II). Rank-1 recognition accuracy of our proposed system is 76.6% on FGNET and 92.5% on MORPH (Album II). Experimental results show the significant improvement over available state-of- the-arts with the proposed CNN architecture and the classifier.
A Novel Mathematical Based Method for Generating Virtual Samples from a Front...CSCJournals
This paper deals with one sample face recognition which is a new challenging problem in pattern recognition. In the proposed method, the frontal 2D face image of each person divided to some sub-regions. After computing the 3D shape of each sub-region, a fusion scheme is applied on sub-regions to create a total 3D shape for whole face image. Then, 2D face image is added to the corresponding 3D shape to construct 3D face image. Finally by rotating the 3D face image, virtual samples with different views are generated. Experimental results on ORL dataset using nearest neighbor as classifier reveal an improvement about 5% in recognition rate for one sample per person by enlarging training set using generated virtual samples. Compared with other related works, the proposed method has the following advantages: 1) only one single frontal face is required for face recognition and the outputs are virtual images with variant views for each individual 2) need only 3 key points of face (eyes and nose) 3) 3D shape estimation for generating virtual samples is fully automatic and faster than other 3D reconstruction approaches 4) it is fully mathematical with no training phase and the estimated 3D model is unique for each individual.
Face detection for video summary using enhancement based fusion strategyeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Face Detection in Digital Image: A Technical ReviewIJERA Editor
Face detection is the method of focusing faces in input image is an important part of any face processing system. In Face detection, segmentation plays the major role to detect the face. There are many contests for effective and efficient face detection. The aim of this paper is to present a review on several algorithms and methods used for face detection. We read the various surveys and related various techniques according to how they extract features and what learning algorithms are adopted for. Face detection system has two major phases, first to segment skin region from an image and second to decide these regions cover human face or not. There are number of algorithms used in face detection namely Genetic, Hausdorff Distance etc.
A novel approach for performance parameter estimation of face recognition bas...IJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
A FACE RECOGNITION USING LINEAR-DIAGONAL BINARY GRAPH PATTERN FEATURE EXTRACT...ijfcstjournal
Face recognition is one the most interesting topic in the field in computer vision and image processing.
Face recognition is a processing system that recognizes and identifies individuals human by their faces.
Automatic face recognition is powerful way to provide, authorized access to control their system. Face
recognition has many challenging problems (like face pose, face expression variation, illumination
variation, face orientation and noise) in the field of image analysis and computer vision. This method is
work on feature extraction part of face recognition. New way to extract face feature using LD-BGP code
operator it is like LGS and LBP feature extraction operator. In our LD-BGP-code operator work in two
direction first linear then diagonal. In both direction, its create eight digits code to every pixel of image.
Means of these two directional are taken so that is cover all neighbor of center pixel. First linear direction,
only horizontal and vertical pixel are taken. Second diagonal direction only diagonal pixels taken. In
matching phase, we use Euclidean distance to match a face image. We perform the Linear and diagonal
directional operator method on face database ORL. We get accuracy 95.3 %. LD-BGP method also works
on different type image like illuminated and expression variation image.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
In this paper, we present an automatic application of 3D face recognition system using geodesic distance in Riemannian geometry. We consider, in this approach, the three dimensional face images as residing in Riemannian manifold and we compute the geodesic distance using the Jacobi iterations as a solution of the Eikonal equation. The problem of solving the Eikonal equation, unstructured simplified meshes of 3D face surface, such as tetrahedral and triangles are important for accurately modeling material interfaces and curved domains, which are approximations to curved surfaces in R3. In the classifying steps, we use: Neural Networks (NN), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machines (SVM). To test this method and evaluate its performance, a simulation series of experiments were performed on 3D Shape REtrieval Contest 2008 database (SHREC2008).
Implementation of Face Recognition in Cloud Vision Using Eigen FacesIJERA Editor
Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, Face is a complex multidimensional visual model and developing a computational model for face recognition is difficult. The papers discuss a methodology for face recognition based on information theory approach of coding and decoding the face image. Proposed System is connection of two stages – Feature extraction using principle component analysis and recognition using the back propagation Network. This paper also discusses our work with the design and implementation of face recognition applications using our mobile-cloudlet-cloud architecture named MOCHA and its initial performance results. The dispute lies with how to performance task partitioning from mobile devices to cloud and distribute compute load among cloud servers to minimize the response time given diverse communication latencies and server compute powers
LITERATURE SURVEY ON SPARSE REPRESENTATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED FACE DETE...csijjournal
Face detection and recognition is a challenging problem in the field of image processing. In this paper, we reviewed some of the recent research works on face recognition. Issues with the previous face recognition
techniques are , time required is more for face recognition , recognition rate and database required to store the data . To overcome these problems sparse representation based classifier technique can be used.
50Combining Color Spaces for Human Skin Detection in Color Images using Skin ...idescitation
Skin detection remains a challenging task over
several decades in spite of many techniques evolved. It is the
elementary step of most of the computer vision applications
like face recognition, human computer interaction, etc. It
depends on the suitability of color space chosen, skin modeling
and classification of skin and non-skin pixels under varying
illumination conditions. This paper presents a symbolic
interpretation on the performance of the color spaces using
piecewise linear decision boundary classifier in color images
to find the winning color space (s). The whole task is divided
into three processes: analysis of color spaces individually;
analysis of the combination of two color spaces; and finally
making a comparative analysis among the results obtained by
the above two processes. For performing the fair evaluation,
the whole experiment is tested over commonly used databases.
Based on the success rate, false positive and false negative of
each color spaces, the winner(s) has been chosen among single
and the combination of color spaces.
Independent Component Analysis of Edge Information for Face RecognitionCSCJournals
In this paper we address the problem of face recognition using edge information as independent components. The edge information is obtained by using Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) and Canny edge detection methods then preprocessing is done by using Principle Component analysis (PCA) before applying the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithm for training of images. The independent components obtained by ICA algorithm are used as feature vectors for classification. The Euclidean distance and Mahalanobis distance classifiers are used for testing of images. The algorithm is tested on two different databases of face images for variation in illumination and facial poses up to 180 degree rotation angle.
Data Mining Based Skin Pixel Detection Applied On Human Images: A Study PaperIJERA Editor
Skin segmentation is the process of the identifying the skin pixels in a image in a particular color model and dividing the images into skin and non-skin pixels. It is the process of find the particular skin of the image or video in a color model. Finding the regions of the images in human images to say these pixel regions are part of the image or videos is typically a preprocessing step in skin detection in computer vision, face detection or multi-view face detection. Skin pixel detection model converts the images into appropriate format in a color space and then classification process is being used for labeling of the skin and non-skin pixels. A skin classifier identifies the boundary of the skin image in a skin color model based on the training dataset. Here in this paper, we present the survey of the skin pixel segmentation using the learning algorithms.
MSB based Face Recognition Using Compression and Dual Matching TechniquesCSCJournals
Biometrics are used in almost all communication technology applications for secure recognition. In this paper, we propose MSB based face recognition using compression and dual matching techniques. The standard available face images are considered to test the proposed method. The novel concept of considering only four Most Significant Bits (MSB) of each pixel on image is introduced to reduce the total number of bits to half of an image for high speed computation and less architectural complexity. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied to an image with only MSB's, and consider only LL band coefficients as final features. The features of the database and test images are compared using Euclidian Distance (ED) an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to test the performance of the pot method. It is observed that, the performance of the proposed method is better than the existing methods.
EV-SIFT - An Extended Scale Invariant Face Recognition for Plastic Surgery Fa...IJECEIAES
This paper presents a new technique called Entropy based SIFT (EV-SIFT) for accurate face recognition after the plastic surgery. The corresponding feature extracts the key points and volume of the scale-space structure for which the information rate is determined. This provides least effect on uncertain variations in the face since the entropy is the higher order statistical feature. The corresponding EV-SIFT features are applied to the Support vector machine for classification. The normal SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the contrast of the image and the V- SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the volume of the structure. However, the EV- SIFT method provides both the contrast and volume information. Thus EV-SIFT provide better performance when compared with PCA, normal SIFT and VSIFT based feature extraction.
Face Recognition System Using Local Ternary Pattern and Signed Number Multipl...inventionjournals
This paper presents a novel approach to face recognition. The task of face recognition is to verify a claimed identity by comparing a claimed image of the individual with other images belonging to the same individual/other individual in a database. The proposed method utilizes Local Ternary Pattern and signed bit multiplication to extract local features of a face. The image is divided into small non-overlapping windows. Processing is carried out on these windows to extract features. Test image’s features are compared with all the training images using Euclidean's distance. The image with lowest Euclidean distance is recognized as the true face image. If the distance between test and all training images is more than threshold then test image is considered as unrecognised image or match not found .The face recognition rate of proposed system is calculated by varying the number of images per person in training database
FPGA ARCHITECTURE FOR FACIAL-FEATURES AND COMPONENTS EXTRACTIONijcseit
Several methods for detecting the face and extracting the facial features and components exist in the
literature. These methods are different in their complexity, performance, type and nature of the images and
the targeted application. The facial features and components are used in security applications, robotics and
assistance for the disabled. We use these components and characteristics to determine the state of alertness
and fatigue for medical diagnoses. In this work we use plain color background images whose color is
different from the skin and which contain a single face. We are interested in FPGA implementation of this
application. This implementation must meet two constraints, which are the execution time and the FPGA
resources. We have selected and have associated a face detection algorithm based on the skin detection
(using the RGB space) with a facial-feature extraction algorithm based on tracking the gradient and the
geometric model.
A study of techniques for facial detection and expression classificationIJCSES Journal
Automatic recognition of facial expressions is an important component for human-machine interfaces. It
has lot of attraction in research area since 1990's.Although humans recognize face without effort or
delay, recognition by a machine is still a challenge. Some of its challenges are highly dynamic in their
orientation, lightening, scale, facial expression and occlusion. Applications are in the fields like user
authentication, person identification, video surveillance, information security, data privacy etc. The
various approaches for facial recognition are categorized into two namely holistic based facial
recognition and feature based facial recognition. Holistic based treat the image data as one entity without
isolating different region in the face where as feature based methods identify certain points on the face
such as eyes, nose and mouth etc. In this paper, facial expression recognition is analyzed with various
methods of facial detection,facial feature extraction and classification.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Face Recognition based on STWT and DTCWT using two dimensional Q-shift Filters IJERA Editor
The Biometrics is used to recognize a person effectively compared to traditional methods of identification. In this paper, we propose a Face recognition based on Single Tree Wavelet Transform (STWT) and Dual Tree Complex Wavelet transform (DTCWT). The Face Images are preprocessed to enhance quality of the image and resize. DTCWT and STWT are applied on face images to extract features. The Euclidian distance is used to compare features of database image with test face images to compute performance parameters. The performance of STWT is compared with DTCWT. It is observed that the DTCWT gives better results compared to STWT technique.
International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Techno...IJCSEIT Journal
Several methods for detecting the face and extracting the facial features and components exist in the
literature. These methods are different in their complexity, performance, type and nature of the images and
the targeted application. The facial features and components are used in security applications, robotics and
assistance for the disabled. We use these components and characteristics to determine the state of alertness
and fatigue for medical diagnoses. In this work we use plain color background images whose color is
different from the skin and which contain a single face. We are interested in FPGA implementation of this
application. This implementation must meet two constraints, which are the execution time and the FPGA
resources. We have selected and have associated a face detection algorithm based on the skin detection
(using the RGB space) with a facial-feature extraction algorithm based on tracking the gradient and the
geometric model.
A Novel Mathematical Based Method for Generating Virtual Samples from a Front...CSCJournals
This paper deals with one sample face recognition which is a new challenging problem in pattern recognition. In the proposed method, the frontal 2D face image of each person divided to some sub-regions. After computing the 3D shape of each sub-region, a fusion scheme is applied on sub-regions to create a total 3D shape for whole face image. Then, 2D face image is added to the corresponding 3D shape to construct 3D face image. Finally by rotating the 3D face image, virtual samples with different views are generated. Experimental results on ORL dataset using nearest neighbor as classifier reveal an improvement about 5% in recognition rate for one sample per person by enlarging training set using generated virtual samples. Compared with other related works, the proposed method has the following advantages: 1) only one single frontal face is required for face recognition and the outputs are virtual images with variant views for each individual 2) need only 3 key points of face (eyes and nose) 3) 3D shape estimation for generating virtual samples is fully automatic and faster than other 3D reconstruction approaches 4) it is fully mathematical with no training phase and the estimated 3D model is unique for each individual.
Face detection for video summary using enhancement based fusion strategyeSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Face Detection in Digital Image: A Technical ReviewIJERA Editor
Face detection is the method of focusing faces in input image is an important part of any face processing system. In Face detection, segmentation plays the major role to detect the face. There are many contests for effective and efficient face detection. The aim of this paper is to present a review on several algorithms and methods used for face detection. We read the various surveys and related various techniques according to how they extract features and what learning algorithms are adopted for. Face detection system has two major phases, first to segment skin region from an image and second to decide these regions cover human face or not. There are number of algorithms used in face detection namely Genetic, Hausdorff Distance etc.
A novel approach for performance parameter estimation of face recognition bas...IJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
A FACE RECOGNITION USING LINEAR-DIAGONAL BINARY GRAPH PATTERN FEATURE EXTRACT...ijfcstjournal
Face recognition is one the most interesting topic in the field in computer vision and image processing.
Face recognition is a processing system that recognizes and identifies individuals human by their faces.
Automatic face recognition is powerful way to provide, authorized access to control their system. Face
recognition has many challenging problems (like face pose, face expression variation, illumination
variation, face orientation and noise) in the field of image analysis and computer vision. This method is
work on feature extraction part of face recognition. New way to extract face feature using LD-BGP code
operator it is like LGS and LBP feature extraction operator. In our LD-BGP-code operator work in two
direction first linear then diagonal. In both direction, its create eight digits code to every pixel of image.
Means of these two directional are taken so that is cover all neighbor of center pixel. First linear direction,
only horizontal and vertical pixel are taken. Second diagonal direction only diagonal pixels taken. In
matching phase, we use Euclidean distance to match a face image. We perform the Linear and diagonal
directional operator method on face database ORL. We get accuracy 95.3 %. LD-BGP method also works
on different type image like illuminated and expression variation image.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
In this paper, we present an automatic application of 3D face recognition system using geodesic distance in Riemannian geometry. We consider, in this approach, the three dimensional face images as residing in Riemannian manifold and we compute the geodesic distance using the Jacobi iterations as a solution of the Eikonal equation. The problem of solving the Eikonal equation, unstructured simplified meshes of 3D face surface, such as tetrahedral and triangles are important for accurately modeling material interfaces and curved domains, which are approximations to curved surfaces in R3. In the classifying steps, we use: Neural Networks (NN), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machines (SVM). To test this method and evaluate its performance, a simulation series of experiments were performed on 3D Shape REtrieval Contest 2008 database (SHREC2008).
Implementation of Face Recognition in Cloud Vision Using Eigen FacesIJERA Editor
Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, Face is a complex multidimensional visual model and developing a computational model for face recognition is difficult. The papers discuss a methodology for face recognition based on information theory approach of coding and decoding the face image. Proposed System is connection of two stages – Feature extraction using principle component analysis and recognition using the back propagation Network. This paper also discusses our work with the design and implementation of face recognition applications using our mobile-cloudlet-cloud architecture named MOCHA and its initial performance results. The dispute lies with how to performance task partitioning from mobile devices to cloud and distribute compute load among cloud servers to minimize the response time given diverse communication latencies and server compute powers
LITERATURE SURVEY ON SPARSE REPRESENTATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED FACE DETE...csijjournal
Face detection and recognition is a challenging problem in the field of image processing. In this paper, we reviewed some of the recent research works on face recognition. Issues with the previous face recognition
techniques are , time required is more for face recognition , recognition rate and database required to store the data . To overcome these problems sparse representation based classifier technique can be used.
50Combining Color Spaces for Human Skin Detection in Color Images using Skin ...idescitation
Skin detection remains a challenging task over
several decades in spite of many techniques evolved. It is the
elementary step of most of the computer vision applications
like face recognition, human computer interaction, etc. It
depends on the suitability of color space chosen, skin modeling
and classification of skin and non-skin pixels under varying
illumination conditions. This paper presents a symbolic
interpretation on the performance of the color spaces using
piecewise linear decision boundary classifier in color images
to find the winning color space (s). The whole task is divided
into three processes: analysis of color spaces individually;
analysis of the combination of two color spaces; and finally
making a comparative analysis among the results obtained by
the above two processes. For performing the fair evaluation,
the whole experiment is tested over commonly used databases.
Based on the success rate, false positive and false negative of
each color spaces, the winner(s) has been chosen among single
and the combination of color spaces.
Independent Component Analysis of Edge Information for Face RecognitionCSCJournals
In this paper we address the problem of face recognition using edge information as independent components. The edge information is obtained by using Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) and Canny edge detection methods then preprocessing is done by using Principle Component analysis (PCA) before applying the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithm for training of images. The independent components obtained by ICA algorithm are used as feature vectors for classification. The Euclidean distance and Mahalanobis distance classifiers are used for testing of images. The algorithm is tested on two different databases of face images for variation in illumination and facial poses up to 180 degree rotation angle.
Data Mining Based Skin Pixel Detection Applied On Human Images: A Study PaperIJERA Editor
Skin segmentation is the process of the identifying the skin pixels in a image in a particular color model and dividing the images into skin and non-skin pixels. It is the process of find the particular skin of the image or video in a color model. Finding the regions of the images in human images to say these pixel regions are part of the image or videos is typically a preprocessing step in skin detection in computer vision, face detection or multi-view face detection. Skin pixel detection model converts the images into appropriate format in a color space and then classification process is being used for labeling of the skin and non-skin pixels. A skin classifier identifies the boundary of the skin image in a skin color model based on the training dataset. Here in this paper, we present the survey of the skin pixel segmentation using the learning algorithms.
MSB based Face Recognition Using Compression and Dual Matching TechniquesCSCJournals
Biometrics are used in almost all communication technology applications for secure recognition. In this paper, we propose MSB based face recognition using compression and dual matching techniques. The standard available face images are considered to test the proposed method. The novel concept of considering only four Most Significant Bits (MSB) of each pixel on image is introduced to reduce the total number of bits to half of an image for high speed computation and less architectural complexity. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied to an image with only MSB's, and consider only LL band coefficients as final features. The features of the database and test images are compared using Euclidian Distance (ED) an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to test the performance of the pot method. It is observed that, the performance of the proposed method is better than the existing methods.
EV-SIFT - An Extended Scale Invariant Face Recognition for Plastic Surgery Fa...IJECEIAES
This paper presents a new technique called Entropy based SIFT (EV-SIFT) for accurate face recognition after the plastic surgery. The corresponding feature extracts the key points and volume of the scale-space structure for which the information rate is determined. This provides least effect on uncertain variations in the face since the entropy is the higher order statistical feature. The corresponding EV-SIFT features are applied to the Support vector machine for classification. The normal SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the contrast of the image and the V- SIFT feature extracts the key points based on the volume of the structure. However, the EV- SIFT method provides both the contrast and volume information. Thus EV-SIFT provide better performance when compared with PCA, normal SIFT and VSIFT based feature extraction.
Face Recognition System Using Local Ternary Pattern and Signed Number Multipl...inventionjournals
This paper presents a novel approach to face recognition. The task of face recognition is to verify a claimed identity by comparing a claimed image of the individual with other images belonging to the same individual/other individual in a database. The proposed method utilizes Local Ternary Pattern and signed bit multiplication to extract local features of a face. The image is divided into small non-overlapping windows. Processing is carried out on these windows to extract features. Test image’s features are compared with all the training images using Euclidean's distance. The image with lowest Euclidean distance is recognized as the true face image. If the distance between test and all training images is more than threshold then test image is considered as unrecognised image or match not found .The face recognition rate of proposed system is calculated by varying the number of images per person in training database
FPGA ARCHITECTURE FOR FACIAL-FEATURES AND COMPONENTS EXTRACTIONijcseit
Several methods for detecting the face and extracting the facial features and components exist in the
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1. Rajesh Reddy N et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Automated Image Segmentation And Characterization Technique
For Effective Isolation And Representation Of Human Face
*Rajesh Reddy N, *Mohana Vamshi Komandla, *Ganesh NVSL, **Nandhitha
N.M, **Logashanmugam E
*(IV Year, Department of ECE, Sathyabama University, Jeppiaar Nagar, Old Mamallapuram Road, Chennai
600 119, India)
** (Professor, Department of ECE, Sathyabama University, Jeppiaar Nagar, Old Mamallapuram Road, Chennai
600 119, India)
ABSTRACT
In areas such as defense and forensics, it is necessary to identify the face of the criminals from the already
available database. Automated face recognition system involves face isolation, feature extraction and
classification technique. Challenges in face recognition system are isolating the face effectively as it may be
affected by illumination, posture and variation in skin color. Hence it is necessary to develop an effective
algorithm that isolates face from the image. In this paper, advanced face isolation technique and feature
extraction technique has been proposed.
Keywords - Face, Erosion, YCbCr, DCT, Eigen Values and Eigen vectors.
I.
INTRODUCTION
With the computerization of defense,
forensics, and surveillance departments, the paradigm
has shifted to automatic face recognition system.
However as it is a real time system and is affected by
illumination, pose and noise, it is necessary to isolate
face from the image. After isolating the face, it is
necessary to extract unique features that could
distinguish each face from the other. Once these
features are determined, then using an appropriate
classifier, face can be recognized. Though
considerable research is already carried out in this
area, identifying the face itself is a major challenge. In
the proposed approach, an automatic face isolation
system is developed using morphological operators to
perform face isolation and feature extraction.
This paper is organized as follows: Section II
describes the related work. Section III provides the
methodology used in the proposed work. Section IV
describes the results and discussion. Section V
concludes the work.
II.
RELATED WORK
Wadkar and Wankhade (2012) proposed the
use of Haar Wavelet Transform on the test images to
perform averaging and differencing process. Biorthogonal filters of lengths 9 and 7 and a superset of
9/7 pair is used for face recognition. Euclidean
distance method is used to identify the distance
between query image and the database image. The
results were tested on an ORL database.
Madiafi and Bouroumi (2012) proposed a
neuro fuzzy based robust face recognition system
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which uses Fuzzy based competitive rules for training
the Kohonen Self Organizing map based classifier. A
set of 200 images each of individuals where each
individual is represented by a sample of 10 images is
taken in the dataset in bmp format with a resolution of
180X200. The proposed approach worked well for
even an untrained dataset.
M.Meenakshi (2012) used Discrete Cosine
Transform (DCT) and Principal Component Analysis
(PCA) for automatic face recognition. PCA includes
two phases, training and testing phases where weights
of each image are found and classification of one
image from other is done respectively. The neural
networks are trained using the features obtained from
training set. Then PCA analysis is done by comparing
mean image with reconstructed image.
Prasanna and Hegde (2013) proposed a
method for recognizing the faces with varied pose and
illumination through Active Appearance Model
(AAM) and lazy classification. The proposed model
comprises of two stages; developing a feature library
and recognition stage. AAM is used for manual
intervention in developing the feature library to extract
the shape and appearance models. The recognition
process includes lazy classification. This lazy
classification does not require training and the
proposed method was tested for various factors like
accuracy, sensitivity, False Positive Rate (FPR),
Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive
Value (NPV), False Discovery Rate (FDR) and
Mathew correlation coefficients. The results were
better compared to conventional methods.
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Tayal et.al. (2012) proposed a novel method of face
recognition system based on color segmentation. Skin
color and the segmentation of the skin region in a
group picture are observed to be a robust cue for the
face recognition and tracking systems. This method is
invariant of the size of the face and its orientation. The
HSV (hue, saturation and value) color model is used
in the detection and the segmentation of the skin
regions in a random picture. For regions classified as
faces, it uses the height and width of the region to
draw a rectangular box with the region’s centroid as
its centre. The algorithm is tested are random images
taken in uncontrolled conditions and the efficiency of
the face detection was found to be 73.68%.
III.
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RGB input image
Convert RGB to
grayscale image
format
Convert RGB to YCbCr
image format
Perform lightening
compensation taking Y
component
Extract the Skin Region
taking Cr component
Methodology
Initially a database is created with images of
20 persons and is stored in ‘.jpeg’ format. The spatial
resolution of the images is 413X531 with 8 bits used
for representing each pixel. Initially lighting
compensation and skin region detection is performed.
Then the following steps are involved in order to
isolate the face from the image; Erosion is performed
to remove the undesirable regions similar to the skin
region with diamond as the structuring element of size
3. For every row, the columns with white pixels are
identified and are stored in an array for identifying the
face region. Also the number of white pixels in each
row is counted and is stored in an array. From the gray
scale image all the pixels corresponding to the above
identified columns are retained, by zeroing the
remaining pixels. However the neck of the person is
also visible in the output image. Hence it is necessary
to remove that region.
In order to perform that, the row
corresponding to maximum count is identified and n
rows above and below that. In order to represent the
features, Eigen values are calculated and the
corresponding Eigen vectors are also determined. The
flowchart of the proposed work is shown in Fig.1.
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Noise Removal and
Erosion
Match the grayscale
values for the eroded
image
Detected face region
Fig.1: Flowchart for the proposed work
IV.
Results and discussion
The set of input images used in the proposed
work are shown in Figure 2. These color images are
then converted into grayscale images as in Figure 3.
The color images are then converted to YCbCr and the
luminance component is used to perform lighting
compensation which is represented in Figure 4. Skin
region is found by taking the chrominance component
values the corresponding output images are shown in
Figure 5. Unwanted noise elements are removed and
the corresponding output images are shown in Figures
6 and 7 respectively. Corresponding face images are
shown in Figure 8 and the final output images without
neck region are shown in Figure 9. Features extracted
from the isolated images by determining the Eigen
values. Mean and standard deviation are calculated for
approximation, horizontal and vertical co-efficients
are tabulated in Table 1. From table 1 it is clear that
every face has a unique Eigen value.
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Fig.2: RGB color images
Fig.5: Skin Region
Fig.3: Grayscale image
Fig.6: Noise Removed from the skin region
Fig.4: Lighting Compensation
Fig.7: Performing Erosion
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V.
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Conclusion
In this paper an effective image processing
based technique for detecting face from the input
image has been proposed successfully. It works well
on all the test images irrespective of skin color and
background. However the proposed technique
involves morphological image processing operators
which indeed are dependent on the shape and size of
the structuring element. Also in certain cases a small
portion of the neck region is present. Hence in future
the algorithm has to be modified so that the neck
region is removed. This paper ends with describing the
face image using Eigen values. In future face
recognition system has to be developed with Eigen
values and other descriptors as input parameters.
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