Optimised landmark model matching for face recognition

Author

Senaratne, Rajinda ; Halgamuge, Saman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Manufacturing Eng., Melbourne Univ., Carlton, Vic.

fYear

2006

fDate

2-6 April 2006

Lastpage

125

Abstract

A new method for face recognition, landmark model matching, is proposed in this paper. It is based on the concepts of elastic bunch graph matching and active shape model, and optimised with particle swarm optimisation. It is a fully automatic algorithm and can be used for face databases where only one image per person is available. A face is represented by a landmark model consisting of nodes labelled with jets and gray-level profiles. A landmark distribution model is created from a few training images. The model similarity between the landmark distribution model and the deformable landmark model that has to be fitted to the face in the image is maximised by particle swarm optimisation, to find the optimal model to represent the face. Improved results were obtained by this method compared with elastic bunch graph matching without optimisation

Keywords

face recognition; particle swarm optimisation; visual databases; active shape model; elastic bunch graph matching; face databases; face recognition; landmark distribution model; optimised landmark model matching; particle swarm optimisation; Active shape model; Deformable models; Face detection; Face recognition; Image databases; Lattices; Manufacturing; Mechatronics; Optimization methods; Particle swarm optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2006. FGR 2006. 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Southampton

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2503-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FGR.2006.85

Filename

1613008