Seventh IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'06)
Weighted Gabor Features in Unitary Space for Face Recognition
University of Southampton,UK
April 10-April 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2503-2
Yong Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Gabor filters based features, with their good properties of space-frequency localization and orientation selectivity, seem to be the most effective features for face recognition currently. In this paper, we propose a kind of weighted Gabor complex features which combining Gabor magnitude and phase features in Unitary space. Its weights are determined according to recognition rates of magnitude and phase features. Meanwhile, subspace based algorithms, PCA and LDA, are generalized into Unitary space, and a rarely used distance measure, Unitary space cosine distance, is adopted for Unitary subspace based recognition algorithms. Using the generalized subspace algorithms our proposed weighted Gabor complex features (WGCF) produce better recognition result than either Gabor magnitude or Gabor phase features. Experiments on FERET database show good results comparable to the best one reported in literature [1].
Citation:
Yong Gao, Yangsheng Wang, Xinshan Zhu, Xuetao Feng, Xiaoxu Zhou, "Weighted Gabor Features in Unitary Space for Face Recognition," fg, pp.79-84, Seventh IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'06), 2006