Gabor feature based classification using the enhanced Fisher linear discriminant model for face recognition

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2002

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel Gabor-Fisher Classifier (GFC) for face recognition. The GFC method, which is robust to changes in illumination and facial expression, applies the Enhanced Fisher linear discriminant Model (EFM) to an augmented Gabor feature vector derived from the Gabor wavelet representation of face images. The novelty of this paper comes from 1) the derivation of an augmented Gabor feature vector, whose dimensionality is further reduced using the EFM by considering both data compression and recognition (generalization) performance; 2) the development of a Gabor-Fisher classifier for multi-class problems; and 3) extensive performance evaluation studies. In particular, we performed comparative studies of different similarity measures applied to various classifiers. We also performed comparative experimental studies of various face recognition schemes, including our novel GFC method, the Gabor wavelet method, the Eigenfaces method, the Fisherfaces method, the EFM method, the combination of Gabor and the Eigenfaces method, and the combination of Gabor and the Fisherfaces method. The feasibility of the new GFC method has been successfully tested on face recognition using 600 FERET frontal face images corresponding to 200 subjects, which were acquired under variable illumination and facial expressions. The novel GFC method achieves 100% accuracy on face recognition using only 62 features.

Identifier

0036543747 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2002.999679

ISSN

10577149

First Page

467

Last Page

476

Issue

4

Volume

11

Grant

421270

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