Face recognition based on combination of monogenic filtering and local quantitative pattern

Abstract

Concerning the disadvantages of traditional face recognition methods, such as high dimension of extracted feature, higher computational complexity, a new method of face recognition combining monogenic filtering with Local Quantiztative Pattern( LQP) was proposed. Firstly, the multi-modal monogenic features of local amplitude, local orientation and local phase were extracted by a multi-scale monogenic filter; secondly, the LQP operator was used to get LQP feature maps by encoding the three kinds of monogenic features in each pixel; finally, the LQP feature maps were divided into several blocks, from which spatial histograms were extracted and connected as the face feature. ORL and CAS-PEAL face databases were used to test the proposed algorithm and the recognition rates were higher than all the other methods used in the experiments. The results validate that the proposed method has higher recognition accuracy and can reduce the computational complexity significantly.