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Multi-band gradient component pattern (MGCP): A new statistical feature for face recognition

  • Yimo Guo*
  • , Jie Chen
  • , Guoying Zhao
  • , Matti Pietikäinen
  • , Zhengguang Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Oulu
  • University of Science and Technology Beijing

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Abstract

A feature extraction method using multi-frequency bands is proposed for face recognition, named as the Multi-band Gradient Component Pattern (MGCP). The MGCP captures discriminative information from Gabor filter responses in virtue of an orthogonal gradient component analysis method, which is especially designed to encode energy variations of Gabor magnitude. Different from some well-known Gabor-based feature extraction methods, MGCP extracts geometry features from Gabor magnitudes in the orthogonal gradient space in a novel way. It is shown that such features encapsulate more discriminative information. The proposed method is evaluated by performing face recognition experiments on the FERET and FRGC ver 2.0 databases and compared with several state-of-the-art approaches. Experimental results demonstrate that MGCP achieves the highest recognition rate among all the compared methods, including some well-known Gabor-based methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage Analysis - 16th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2009, Proceedings
Pages229-238
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2009 - Oslo, Norway
Duration: 15 Jun 200918 Jun 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5575 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2009
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityOslo
Period15/06/0918/06/09

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