Similarity Michaelis-Menten law pre-processing descriptor for face recognition

  • Suli Ji
  • , Baochang Zhang*
  • , Dandan Du
  • , Biao He
  • , Jianzhuang Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a non-linear pre-processing method based on Similarity Michaelis-Menten law (SMML) for face recognition. Similarity Michaelis-Menten law can be used to explain visual sensitivity in the vertebrate retina. We preprocess input images using SMML, and then employ Local Binary Pattern (LBP) for face feature extraction. Advantages of SMML include improvement of light adaption, noise effect, detection right rate, robustness and efficiency, which inspire us exploit it for face pre-processing descriptor for the first time in the field of face recognition. And the parameters of SMML are spatiotemporally and locally estimated by the input image itself employing Sobel, which shows its advantages for face recognition. Extensive experiments clearly demonstrate the superiority of our method over the ones which only use LBP on FERET database in many aspects including the robustness against different facial expressions, lighting and aging of the subjects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1272-1277
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479914845
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2014
Event2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 6 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Conference

Conference2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/07/1411/07/14

Keywords

  • face recognition
  • LBP
  • Michaelis-Menten law
  • retina

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