Face Sketch Matching Using Speed up Robust Feature Descriptor

Abstract

In this paper, face sketch and face image matching problem is presented. Matching of the sketch with face is crucial for the law enforcement applications and received attention of the researchers in the recent years. Face sketch and face images are the two different modality representations of the same face. Face sketch is drawn based on description given by the witness when no other source of information is available about the suspect. Matching of the sketch with the face image is challenging problem due to the visual difference between a face sketch and face image. To find the potential suspect, the sketch is compared with the different face images. Speed Up Robust Feature (SURF) descriptor used for matching similarity between sketch and the face image. The result shows that, SURF descriptor gives better result as compared to Scale Invariant Feature Transform descriptor for the viewed and forensic sketches.