Abstract

Traditional face recognition method usually faces the challenge of varying lighting condition. In this paper, we propose an illumination-invariant local binary descriptor learning method for face recognition. Unlike local binary descriptor (LBP) and its variants, which usually utilize the rigid sign function for binarization despite of data distributions. We first determine a dynamic thresholds strategy including the information of illumination variation to extract nonlinear multi-layer contrast features. Specially, Exponential Discriminant Analysis (EDA) is designed to act as preprocessing which can contribute to improve the discriminative ability of the face image by enlarging the margin between different classes relative to the same class. To further improve the recognition performance, we combined our preliminary work, the adaptive fuzzy fusion framework, to integrate the recognition results for multi-scale features spaces. Extensive experiments conducted on four face databases validate the effectiveness of the proposed method for illumination face recognition.

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