Extraction and fusion of spectral parameters for face recognition

Bertrand Boisier (1) , Bastien Billiot (1) , Zeguidi Abdessalem (1) , Pierre Gouton (1) , Jon Yngve Hardeberg (2)

1 Le2i - Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image [UMR6306]
2 ColorLab - The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory

Many methods have been developed in image processing for face recognition, especially in recent years with the increase of biometric technologies. However, most of these techniques are used on grayscale images acquired in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The aims of our study are to improve existing tools and to develop new methods for face recognition. The techniques used take advantage of the different spectral ranges, the visible, optical infrared and thermal infrared, by either combining them or analyzing them separately in order to extract the most appropriate information for face recognition. We also verify the consistency of several keypoints extraction techniques in the Near Infrared (NIR) and in the Visible Spectrum.

Mots clés: Face recognition; Visible; Near Infrared; Short Wave Infrared; Feature extraction; feature descriptor

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Bertrand Boisier, Bastien Billiot, Zeguidi Abdessalem, Pierre Gouton, Jon Yngve Hardeberg. Extraction and fusion of spectral parameters for face recognition. Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV, Jan 2011, San Francisco, United States. pp.32. ⟨hal-00708699⟩