XIE Xiao-hua, LAI Jian-huang, ZHENG Wei-shi. Illumination Normalization of Human Face Based on the Second-Order Polynomial Model[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2010, 38(8): 1791-1797.
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XIE Xiao-hua, LAI Jian-huang, ZHENG Wei-shi. Illumination Normalization of Human Face Based on the Second-Order Polynomial Model[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2010, 38(8): 1791-1797.DOI:
Illumination Normalization of Human Face Based on the Second-Order Polynomial Model
We proposed to describe the relationship between the pixel grey values of the face images under frontal and non-frontal illumination conditions by using a second order polynomial model.Correspondingly
an illumination normalization method based on such nonlinear model was formed.The proposed method learns the illumination variations in a statistical manner by using regression model without any prior physical knowledge.Furthermore
in order to improve the visual quality
a PCA-based weighting compensation for the normalized face image was proposed.The experimental results on the Extended Yale B and CMU-PIE face databases show that the proposed method can attain good visualization for face images
and significantly improve the face recognition performance.