Face recognition based on stable uniform patterns

  • Authors

    • A. Mallikarjuna Reddy Anurag group of Instutions
    • V. Venkata Krishna
    • L. Sumalatha
    2018-04-28
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.9922
  • Expressions, Gradient, Histogram, Illumination, Pose, Robust, Uniform.

  • Face recognition (FR) is one of the challenging and active research fields of image processing, computer vision and biometrics with numerous proposed systems. We present a feature extraction method named “stable uniform local pattern (SULP)â€, a refined variant of ULBP operator, for robust face recognition. The SULP directly applied on gradient face images (in x and y directions) of a single image for capturing significant fundamental local texture patterns to build up a feature vector of a face image. Histogram sequences of SULP images of the two gradient images are finally concatenated to form the “stable uniform local pattern gradient (SULPG)†vector for the given image. The SULPG approach is experimented on Yale, ATT-ORL, FERET, CAS-PEAL and LFW face databases and the results are compared with the LBP model and various variants of LBP descriptor. The results indicate that the present descriptor is more powerful against a wide range of challenges, such as illumination, expression and pose variations and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods based on LBP.

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    Reddy, A. M., Krishna, V. V., & Sumalatha, L. (2018). Face recognition based on stable uniform patterns. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2), 626-634. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.9922