A novel thermal face recognition approach using face pattern words

Yufeng Zheng

doi:10.1117/12.850664

14 April 2010 A novel thermal face recognition approach using face pattern words

Yufeng Zheng

Proceedings Volume 7667, Biometric Technology for Human Identification VII; 766703 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850664
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A reliable thermal face recognition system can enhance the national security applications such as prevention against terrorism, surveillance, monitoring and tracking, especially at nighttime. The system can be applied at airports, customs or high-alert facilities (e.g., nuclear power plant) for 24 hours a day. In this paper, we propose a novel face recognition approach utilizing thermal (long wave infrared) face images that can automatically identify a subject at both daytime and nighttime. With a properly acquired thermal image (as a query image) in monitoring zone, the following processes will be employed: normalization and denoising, face detection, face alignment, face masking, Gabor wavelet transform, face pattern words (FPWs) creation, face identification by similarity measure (Hamming distance). If eyeglasses are present on a subject's face, an eyeglasses mask will be automatically extracted from the querying face image, and then masked with all comparing FPWs (no more transforms). A high identification rate (97.44% with Top-1 match) has been achieved upon our preliminary face dataset (of 39 subjects) from the proposed approach regardless operating time and glasses-wearing condition.e

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Yufeng Zheng "A novel thermal face recognition approach using face pattern words", Proc. SPIE 7667, Biometric Technology for Human Identification VII, 766703 (14 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850664

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