Color space projection, feature fusion and concurrent neural modules for biometric image recognition

  • Authors:
  • Victor-Emil Neagoe

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, "Politechnica" University of Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • CIMMACS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A new technique of color face recognition is proposed. First processing stage consists of an optimum color conversion from the 3D RGB space into a 2D selected feature space using the old Karhunen-Loève transform (KLT). The resulted 2D color space is defined by the two color components (called C1 and C2), corresponding to the two largest eigenvalues of the RGB pixel covariance matrix. The second processing phase corresponds to Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for each color channel. Third stage corresponds to the feature fusion of the C1 and C2 PCA-components. Last processing stage is a multiple neural classifier consisting of a set of concurrent self-organizing modules. The proposed system is experimented for the Essex color face database containing 3520 color images of 151 subjects.