Face recognition with enhanced local gabor binary pattern from human fixations

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Abstract

Performance of automatic face recognition algorithm has increased considerably over the past decades. However, face recognition under changes in lighting conditions remains a challenging issue for computers. In this paper, we propose a novel face recognition algorithm inspired by information taken from human fixation patterns. We augment a LGBP (Local Gabor Binary Pattern) algorithm - a well-known face recognition algorithm - to allocate different weights to each facial part during processing. For deriving the weights, we analyzed data from a human face recognition experiment using eye-tracking. Eye-tracking allows us to determine the facial parts during the recognition process which represent salient regions for human processing. Face images are pre-processed during the recognition step using a weight mask based on the salient regions from the eye-tracking data. A comparison with the standard non-weighted LGBP approach demonstrates the efficacy of our method with the weighted method performing better under lighting changes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012
Pages863-867
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2012 Oct 142012 Oct 17

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Other

Other2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period12/10/1412/10/17

Keywords

  • Face recognition
  • LGBP
  • eye-tracking
  • human perception
  • lighting changes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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