Age transformation for improving face recognition performance

  • Authors:
  • Richa Singh;Mayank Vatsa;Afzel Noore;Sanjay K. Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • West Virginia Univeristy, Morgantown, WV;West Virginia Univeristy, Morgantown, WV;West Virginia Univeristy, Morgantown, WV;Purvanchal University, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Venue:
  • PReMI'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Pattern recognition and machine intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel age transformation algorithm to handle the challenge of facial aging in face recognition. The proposed algorithm registers the gallery and probe face images in polar coordinate domain and minimizes the variations in facial features caused due to aging. The efficacy of the proposed age transformation algorithm is validated using 2D log polar Gabor based face recognition algorithm on a face database that comprises of face images with large age progression. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm significantly improves the verification and identification performance.