Research on Importance of Texture Information in Face Recognition

Abstract:

This paper presents importance of skin texture information in face recognition. To this end, we perform the illumination normalization on face image in order to extract texture information unaffected by illumination variation. And then apply mask image on each illumination normalized face image to obtain the corresponding texture data, which hardly contain the shape information. Face recognition experiments are carried out by using texture data. Experimental results on Yale face database B and CMU PIE database show that the texture information has considerable ability to distinguish subjects in face recognition.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 278-280)
• Pages: 1193-1196
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.278-280.1193
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Yong Gao Jin, Cheng Zhe Xu
• Keywords: Face Recognition, Illumination Normalization, Texture Information

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