A rough neurocomputing approach for illumination invariant face recognition system

  • Authors:
  • Singh Kavita;Zaveri Mukesh;Raghuwanshi Mukesh

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Technology Department, Y.C.C.E., Nagpur, India;Computer Engineering Department, S.V.N.I.T., Surat, India;NYSS College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur, India

  • Venue:
  • RSKT'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we are presenting an illumination invariant face recognition system that will be able to identify the facial images under varying range of illumination of (azimuth, elevation) (+120-65 and -120+65). The main focus of this work is to address the problem of variations in illumination through the strength of the rough sets to recognize the faces under varying illumination. The proposed approach consists of three major parts, namely, illumination normalization, feature extraction and recognition procedure. Illumination normalization part utilizes the existing approaches for illumination normalization based on a mathematical model called rough membership function (rmf) illumination classifier. After normalizing the illumination, geometrical features are extracted and feature vector is formed using the geometrical relations between facial fiducial points. Finally, in recognition part feature vectors of training images are given as input to approximation-decider neuron network (ADNN). The efficiency and robustness of the proposed system are demonstrated on data set of significant size and are compared with state of the art classifier techniques. Our recognizer has achieved 93.56% accuracy for Yale database and 85% accuracy for CMU-PIE database in recognizing the facial images with different types of illumination.