Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
LCIS: a boundary hierarchy for detail-preserving contrast reduction
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The FERET Evaluation Methodology for Face-Recognition Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
The Quotient Image: Class-Based Re-Rendering and Recognition with Varying Illuminations
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
From Few to Many: Illumination Cone Models for Face Recognition under Variable Lighting and Pose
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A signal-processing framework for inverse rendering
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Mean Shift: A Robust Approach Toward Feature Space Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database
FGR '02 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
Bilateral Filtering for Gray and Color Images
ICCV '98 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision
Face Recognition Based on Fitting a 3D Morphable Model
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Illumination Normalization for Robust Face Recognition Against Varying Lighting Conditions
AMFG '03 Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures
ICCV '05 Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1 - Volume 01
Lighting Normalization with Generic Intrinsic Illumination Subspace for Face Recognition
ICCV '05 Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
Total Variation Models for Variable Lighting Face Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Face Description with Local Binary Patterns: Application to Face Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Shadow compensation in 2D images for face recognition
Pattern Recognition
Simplified Gabor wavelets for human face recognition
Pattern Recognition
Contourlet-Based Feature Extraction with PCA for Face Recognition
AHS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
Complex wavelet transform-based face recognition
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
An image preprocessing algorithm for illumination invariant face recognition
AVBPA'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Audio- and video-based biometric person authentication
CVPR'04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE computer society conference on Computer vision and pattern recognition
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
A multiscale retinex for bridging the gap between color images and the human observation of scenes
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Adaptive wavelet thresholding for image denoising and compression
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
The contourlet transform: an efficient directional multiresolution image representation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
The Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform: Theory, Design, and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A Subspace Model-Based Approach to Face Relighting Under Unknown Lighting and Poses
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Face recognition by curvelet based feature extraction
ICIAR'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
Homomorphic filtering based illumination normalization method for face recognition
Pattern Recognition Letters
Complete gradient face: a novel illumination invariant descriptor
CCBR'12 Proceedings of the 7th Chinese conference on Biometric Recognition
A study on the effective approach to illumination-invariant face recognition based on a single image
CCBR'12 Proceedings of the 7th Chinese conference on Biometric Recognition
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Face recognition under varying lighting conditions is challenging, especially for single image based recognition system. Exacting illumination invariant features is an effective approach to solve this problem. However, existing methods are hard to extract both multi-scale and multi-directivity geometrical structures at the same time, which is important for capturing the intrinsic features of a face image. In this paper, we propose to utilize the logarithmic nonsubsampled contourlet transform (LNSCT) to estimate the reflectance component from a single face image and refer it as the illumination invariant feature for face recognition, where NSCT is a fully shift-invariant, multi-scale, and multi-direction transform. LNSCT can extract strong edges, weak edges, and noise from a face image using NSCT in the logarithm domain. We analyze that in the logarithm domain the low-pass subband of a face image and the low frequency part of strong edges can be regarded as the illumination effects, while the weak edges and the high frequency part of strong edges can be considered as the reflectance component. Moreover, even though a face image is polluted by noise (in particular the multiplicative noise), the reflectance component can still be well estimated and meanwhile the noise is removed. The LNSCT can be applied flexibly as neither assumption on lighting condition nor information about 3D shape is required. Experimental results show the promising performance of LNSCT for face recognition on Extended Yale B and CMU-PIE databases.