Face recognition using Gabor wavelets and human saccadic behavior

John G. Keller; Lemuel R. Myers Jr.; Steven K. Rogers; Matthew Kabrisky; Mark E. Oxley; Martin P. DeSimio

doi:10.1117/12.304887

26 March 1998 Face recognition using Gabor wavelets and human saccadic behavior

John G. Keller, Lemuel R. Myers Jr., Steven K. Rogers, Matthew Kabrisky, Mark E. Oxley, Martin P. DeSimio

Proceedings Volume 3391, Wavelet Applications V; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304887
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

We introduce an object recognition system using Gabor filters to model the biological visual field and a saccadic behavioral model to emulate biological active vision. A high resolution image containing an object of interest is first processed by an ensemble of multi-resolution, multi- orientation Gabor filters. The object can then be described by an alternating sequence of fixation coordinates and the Gabor responses at pixel locations surrounding that fixation point. Once this sequence is memorized, a complex image can be searched for the same location/feature sequence, indicating the presence of the memorized object. The model is suitable for memorization of arbitrary objects, and a simple example is presented using a human face as the object of interest.

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John G. Keller, Lemuel R. Myers Jr., Steven K. Rogers, Matthew Kabrisky, Mark E. Oxley, and Martin P. DeSimio "Face recognition using Gabor wavelets and human saccadic behavior", Proc. SPIE 3391, Wavelet Applications V, (26 March 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304887

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