Hybrid SVM／HMM Method for Face Recognition

A face recognition system based on Support Vector Machine(SVM) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been proposed. The powerful discriminative ability of SVM is combined with the temporal modeling ability of HMM. The output of SVM is moderated to be probability output, which replaces the Mixture of Gauss (MOG) in HMM. Wavelet transformation is used to extract observation vector, which reduces the data dimension and improves the robustness.The hybrid system is compared with pure HMM face recognition method based on ORL face database and Yale face database. Experiments results show that the hybrid method has better performance.     

A ciosed-loop algorithm to detect human face using color and reinforcement learning

A closed-loop algorithm to detect human face using color information and reinforcement learning is presented in this paper. By using a skin-color selector, the regions with color “like“ that of human skin are selected as candidates for human face. In the next stage, the candidates are matched with a face model and given an evaluation of the match degree by the matching module. And if the evaluation of the match result is too low, a reinforcement learning stage will start to search the best parameters of the skin-color selector. It has been tested using many photos of various ethnic groups under various lighting conditions, such as different light source, high light and shadow. And the experiment result proved that this algorithm is robust to the vary-ing lighting conditions and personal conditions.     

基于特征脸的人脸检测与识别

人脸识别是属于生物特征识别范畴.然而与其他识别不同的是人脸是一个动态的图像,有位置与光照的变化,并且具有相似的外貌特征,这使得人脸识别成为一个比较困难的问题.文章阐述了基于特征脸的人脸检测与识别方法.该方法本质上是主要成分分析方法,他首先构造特征脸向量,然后计算新图像和数据库中特征脸的空间距离,来决定此图像是否是一副人脸图像,如果是人脸图像,他是那一副人脸图像。     

用局部奇异值分解与改进LDA相结合的方法进行人脸识别

简要叙述人脸图像的标准化过程，特征脸，LDA算法的原理及实现过程。用PCA获取最佳描述特征，然后用LDA获取最佳分类特征，并用实验证明了这种方案的可行性。     

一种基于改进径向基神经网络的人脸图像识别方法

常用于径向基神经网络中心参数学习的K-均值聚类算法,易受初始参数选取的影响而收敛于局部极小值.将自动终止聚类判据的减聚类算法用于径向基网络的学习,可根据样本集确定径向基函数数目,且其计算量与数据点的数目与考虑问题的维数无关,很适合于人脸这种维数较高的模式.实验证明,应用这种算法训练径向基神经网络识别人脸,从识别精度到识别速度上都优于传统算法.     

人脸识别技术的研究

人脸识别技术研究作为对人身份鉴别研究的重要方面,目前已经提出了许多的识别方法,取得了一定的研究成果。本文就人脸识别技术的一些研究方法进行综述,讨论人脸识别的关键技术及其应用和发展前景。     

一种基于模糊积分的多分类器人脸识别方法

提出了一种基于模糊积分的多分类器人脸识别新方法，首先采用两种不同的K-L变换及Fisher线性鉴别分析方法对原始图象进行特征抽取和压缩，然后将压缩后的特征设计成不同的分类器，再利用模糊积分对这些分类器进行融合，达到主观期望和客观证据间的最佳匹配，从而提高了对目标的识别率，并将该方法应用到人脸识别中，实验结果表明，该方法提高了识别率，证明其有效性。     

一种运动目标提取方法及其应用

介绍了一种利用高阶统计量(higherorderstatistics,HOS)提取视频序列中运动目标的新方法,并将其应用到人脸识别技术中。利用HOS对高斯噪声的不敏感性分离运动区域和背景,进一步提取出运动目标。当提取出的视频序列中的运动对象为人体时,利用主元素分析法(principlecomponentanalysis,PCA)进行人脸识别。实验证明,算法计算简单,速度快,用于人脸识别时能正确提取出运动的人体。     

中心损失与Softmax损失联合监督下的人脸识别

深度学习在人脸识别领域已经取得了巨大的成就,针对当前大多数卷积神经网络采用Softmax损失函数进行特征分类,增加新的类别样本会减小类间距离的增长趋势,影响网络对特征判别的问题,采用了一种基于中心损失与Softmax损失联合监督的人脸识别算法,来提高网络对特征的识别能力。在Softmax基础上,首先,分别对训练集每个类别在特征空间维护一个类中心,训练过程新增加样本时,网络会约束样本的分类中心距离,从而兼顾了类内聚合与类间分离。其次,引入动量概念,在分类中心更新的时候,通过保留之前的更新方向,同时利用当前批次的梯度微调最终的更新方向,该方法可以在一定程度上增加稳定性,提高网络的学习效率。最后,在人脸识别基准库LFW上的测试实验证明:所提的联合监督算法,在较小的网络训练集上,获得了99.31%的人脸识别精度。     

A color based face detection system using multiple templates

A color based system using multiple templates was developed and implemented for detecting human faces in color images. The algorithm consists of three image processing steps. The first step is human skin color statistics. Then it separates skin regions from non-skin regions. After that, it locates the frontal human face(s) within the skin regions. In the first step, 250 skin samples from persons of different ethnicities are used to determine the color distribution of human skin in chromatic color space in order to get a chroma chart showing likelihoods of skin colors. This chroma chart is used to generate, from the original color image, a gray scale image whose gray value at a pixel shows its likelihood of representing the skin. The algorithm uses an adaptive thresholding process to achieve the optimal threshold value for dividing the gray scale image into separate skin regions from non skin regions. Finally, multiple face templates matching is used to determine if a given skin region represents a frontal human face or not. Test of the system with more than 400 color images showed that the resulting detection rate was 83%, which is better than most color-based face detection systems. The average speed for face detection is 0.8 second/image (400 x 300 pixels) on a Pentium 3 (800MHz) PC.