Illumination normalization for robust face recognition against varying lighting conditions
- 1 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Evaluations of the state-of-the-art of both academic face recognition algorithms and commercial systems have shown that recognition performance of most current technologies degrades due to the variations of illumination. We investigate several illumination normalization methods and propose some novel solutions. The main contribution includes: (1) A gamma intensity correction (GIC) method is proposed to normalize the overall image intensity at the given illumination level; (2) A region-based strategy combining GIC and the histogram equalization (HE) is proposed to further eliminate the side-lighting effect; (3) A quotient illumination relighting (QIR) method is presented to synthesize images under a predefined normal lighting condition from the provided face images captured under nonnormal lighting condition. These methods are evaluated and compared on the Yale illumination face database B and Harvard illumination face database. Considerable improvements are observed. Some conclusions are given at last.Keywords
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