Recent work has established that digital images of a human face, collected under various illumination conditions, contain discriminatory information that can be used in classification. In this paper we demonstrate that sufficient discriminatory information persists at ultra-low resolution to enable a computer to recognize specific human faces in settings beyond human capabilities. For instance, we utilized the Haar wavelet to modify a collection of images to emulate pictures from a 25-pixel camera. From these modified images, a low-resolution illumination space was constructed for each individual in the CMU-PIE database. Each illumination space was then interpreted as a point on a Grassmann manifold. Classification that exploited the geometry on this manifold yielded error-free classification rates for this data set. This suggests the general utility of a low-resolution illumination camera for set-based image recognition problems.
Recognition of Digital Images of the Human Face at Ultra Low Resolution Via Illumination Spaces
Asian Conference on Computer Vision ; 2007 ; Tokyo, Japan November 18, 2007 - November 22, 2007
2007-01-01
11 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Face Recognition , Discrete Wavelet Transform , Human Face , Haar Wavelet , Grassmann Manifold Computer Science , Image Processing and Computer Vision , Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics , Pattern Recognition , Artificial Intelligence , Biometrics , Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
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