关键词: 人脸识别, 单演滤波, 光照, 幅值, 方向

Abstract: In order to improve the performance of face recognition under non-uniform illumination conditions, a face recognition method based on Patterns of Monogenic Oriented Magnitudes (PMOM) was proposed. Firstly, multi-scale monogenic filter was used to get monogenic magnitude maps and orientation maps of a face image. Secondly, a new operator named PMOM was proposed to decompose the monogenic orientation and magnitude into several PMOM maps by accumulating local energy along several orientations, then Local Binary Pattern (LBP) was used to get LBP feature map from each PMOM map. Finally, LBP feature maps were divided into several blocks, and the concatenated histogram calculated over each block was used as the face feature. The experimental results on the CAS-PEAL and the YALE-B face databases show that the proposed approach improves the performance significantly for the image face with illumination variations. Other advantages of our approach include its simplicity and generality. Its parameter setting is simple and does not require any training steps or lighting assumption and can be implemented easily.

Key words: face recognition, monogenic filter, lighting, magnitude, orientation