Influence of wavelet frequency and orientation in an SVM-based parallel gabor PCA face verification system

Ángel Serrano, Isaac Martín De Diego, Cristina Conde, Enrique Cabello, Linlin Sherr, Li Bai

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Abstract

We present a face verification system using Parallel Gabor Principal Component Analysis (PGPCA) and fusion of Support Vector Machines (SVM) scores. The algorithm has been tested on two databases: XM2VTS (frontal images with frontal or lateral illumination) and FRAV2D (frontal images with diffuse or zenithal illumination, varying poses and occlusions). Our method outperforms others when fewer PCA coefficients are kept. It also has the lowest equal error rate (EER) in experiments using frontal images with occlusions. We have also studied the influence of wavelet frequency and orientation on the EER in a one-Gabor PCA. The high frequency wavelets are able to extract more discriminant information compared to the low frequency wavelets. Moreover, as a general rule, oblique wavelets produce a lower EER compared to horizontal or vertical wavelets. Results also suggest that the optimal wavelet orientation coincides with the illumination gradient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2007 - 8th International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages219-228
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783540772255
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2007 - Birmingham, United Kingdom
Duration: 16 Dec 200719 Dec 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4881 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBirmingham
Period16/12/0719/12/07

Keywords

  • Data fusion
  • Face verification
  • Gabor wavelet
  • Parallel gabor principal component analysis
  • Support vector machine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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