Two-dimensional color uncorrelated discriminant analysis for face recognition

  • Authors:

  • Cairong Zhao;Duoqian Miao;Zhihui Lai;Can Gao;Chuancai Liu;Jingyu Yang

  • Affiliations:

  • The Key Laboratory of "Embedded System and Service Computing", Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201804, China and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, ...;The Key Laboratory of "Embedded System and Service Computing", Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201804, China and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, ...;Bio-Computing Research Center, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China;The Key Laboratory of "Embedded System and Service Computing", Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201804, China and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, ...;School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu 210094, China;School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu 210094, China

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel color face recognition method called two-dimensional color uncorrelated discriminant analysis (2DCUDA), which can extract two-dimensional color uncorrelated features and simultaneously retain the face spatial structure information. The 2DCUDA method seeks to explore color uncorrelated discriminant properties of the color face images and eliminate the correlations between color-based features. The novelties of this paper are twofold. First, this paper develops a new color-based feature for face recognition, which can provide substantial mutual complementation information and improve the recognition performance. Second, theoretical analysis guarantees the uncorrelated property of the obtained color-based features. Comparative experiments on AR and FRGC-2 color face databases have been conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than other color face recognition methods and the two-dimensional color uncorrelated discriminant features are more effective for low-resolution image compared with conventional gray-based features. Finally, we explain why the proposed algorithm can improve the recognition performance compared with other color face recognition methods.