LOCAL TEXTURE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK FOR TEXTURE BASED FACE RECOGNITION
Abstract
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Texture descriptors have an important role in recognizing face images. However, almost all the existing local texture descriptors use nearest neighbors to encode a texture pattern around a pixel. But in face images, most of the pixels have similar characteristics with that of its nearest neighbors because the skin covers large area in a face and the skin tone at neighboring regions are same. Therefore this paper presents a general framework called Local Texture Description Framework that uses only eight pixels which are at certain distance apart either circular or elliptical from the referenced pixel. Local texture description can be done using the foundation of any existing local texture descriptors. In this paper, the performance of the proposed framework is verified with three existing local texture descriptors Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Local Texture Pattern (LTP) and Local Tetra Patterns (LTrPs) for the five issues viz. facial expression, partial occlusion, illumination variation, pose variation and general recognition. Five benchmark databases JAFFE, Essex, Indian faces, AT&T and Georgia Tech are used for the experiments. Experimental results demonstrate that even with less number of patterns, the proposed framework could achieve higher recognition accuracy than that of their base models.

Authors
R. Reena Rose1, A. Suruliandi2, K. Meena3
St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, India1, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India2, J. P. College of Engineering, India3

Keywords
Face Recognition, Local Texture Description Framework, Nearest Neighborhood Classification, Chi-Square Distance Metric
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ICTACT
Published In :
ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing
( Volume: 4 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 773-784 )
Date of Publication :
February 2014
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