Novel face recognition approach based on steerable pyramid feature extraction

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed El Aroussi;Mohammed El Hassouni;Sanaa Ghouzali;Mohammed Rziza;Driss Aboutajdine

  • Affiliations:
  • LRIT, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco;LRIT, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco and DESTEC, FLSHR, Mohammed V University-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco;LRIT, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco;LRIT, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco;LRIT, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco

  • Venue:
  • ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, an efficient local appearance feature extraction method based steerable pyramid (S-P) is proposed for face recognition. Local information is extracted from S-P sub-bands using block-based statistics. The underlying statistics allow us to reduce the required amount of data to be stored. The obtained local features are combined at the feature and decision level to enhance face recognition performance. Experimental results on ORL, Yale and FERET face databases convince us that the proposed method provides a better representation of the class information and obtains much higher recognition accuracies.