Face Recognition System Using Doubly Truncated Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model and DCT Coefficients Under Logarithm Domain

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Author(s)

D. Haritha 1,* K Srinivasa Rao 1 Ch. Satyanarayana 1

1. University college of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada, Kakinada

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2012.10.02

Received: 7 Apr. 2012 / Revised: 5 Jul. 2012 / Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012 / Published: 28 Sep. 2012

Index Terms

Face recognition system, EM algorithm, Doubly truncated multivariate Gaussian mixture model, DCT coefficients under logarithm domain

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a face recognition algorithm based on doubly truncated multivariate Gaussian mixture model with DCT under logarithm domain. In face recognition, the face image is subject to the variation of illumination. The effect of illumination cannot be avoided by mere consideration of DCT coefficients as feature vector. The illumination effect can be minimized by utilizing DCT coefficients under logarithm domain and discarding sum of the DCT coefficients which represents the illumination in the face image. Here, it is assumed that the DCT coefficients under logarithm domain after adjusting the illumination follow a doubly truncated multivariate Gaussian mixture model. The truncation on the feature vector has a significant influence in improving the recognition rate of the system using EM algorithm with K-means or hierarchical clustering, the model parameters are estimated. A face recognition system is developed under Bayesian frame using maximum likelihood. The performance of the system is demonstrated by using the databases namely, JNTUK and Yale and comparing it’s performance with the face recognition system based on GMM. It is observed that the proposed face recognition system outperforms the existing systems.

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D. Haritha,K.Srinivasa Rao,Ch. Satyanarayana,"Face Recognition System Using Doubly Truncated Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model and DCT Coefficients Under Logarithm Domain", IJIGSP, vol.4, no.10, pp.8-17, 2012. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2012.10.02

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