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Robust Face Recognition in the Presence of Clutter

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Abstract

We propose a new method within the framework of principal component analysis to robustly recognize faces in the presence of clutter. The traditional eigenface recognition method performs poorly when confronted with the more general task of recognizing faces appearing against a background. It misses faces completely or throws up many false alarms. We argue in favor of learning the distribution of background patterns and show how this can be done for a given test image. An eigenbackground space is constructed and this space in conjunction with the eigenface space is used to impart robustness in the presence of background. A suitable classifier is derived to distinguish non-face patterns from faces. When tested on real images, the performance of the proposed method is found to be quite good.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsJosef Kittler, Mark S. Nixon
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9783540403029
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2688
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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