A Volumetric/Iconic Frequency Domain Representation for Objects With Application for Pose Invariant Face Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Jezekiel Ben-Arie;Dibyendu Nandy

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago;Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A novel method for representing 3D objects that unifies viewer and model centered object representations is presented. A unified 3D frequency-domain representation (called Volumetric Frequency Representation驴VFR) encapsulates both the spatial structure of the object and a continuum of its views in the same data structure. The frequency-domain image of an object viewed from any direction can be directly extracted employing an extension of the Projection Slice Theorem, where each Fourier-transformed view is a planar slice of the volumetric frequency representation. The VFR is employed for pose-invariant recognition of complex objects, such as faces. The recognition and pose estimation is based on an efficient matching algorithm in a four-dimensional Fourier space. Experimental examples of pose estimation and recognition of faces in various poses are also presented.