Recognition of digital images of the human face at ultra low resolution via illumination spaces

Authors:
Jen-Mei Chang;Michael Kirby;Holger Kley;Chris Peterson;Bruce Draper;J. Ross Beveridge
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO;Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO;Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO;Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO;Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO;Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Venue:
ACCV'07 Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part II
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Recent work has established that digital images of a human face, collected under various illumination conditions, contain discriminatory information that can be used in classification. In this paper we demonstrate that sufficient discriminatory information persists at ultralow resolution to enable a computer to recognize specific human faces in settings beyond human capabilities. For instance, we utilized the Haar wavelet to modify a collection of images to emulate pictures from a 25- pixel camera. From these modified images, a low-resolution illumination space was constructed for each individual in the CMU-PIE database. Each illumination space was then interpreted as a point on a Grassmann manifold. Classification that exploited the geometry on this manifold yielded error-free classification rates for this data set. This suggests the general utility of a low-resolution illumination camera for set-based image recognition problems.