LOCAL ZERNIKE MOMENTS: A NEW REPRESENTATION FOR FACE RECOGNITION


Sariyanidi E., Dagli V., Tek S. C., Tunc B., Gokmen M.

19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Florida, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 30 Eylül - 03 Ekim 2012, ss.585-588 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Florida
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.585-588
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, we propose a new image representation called Local Zernike Moments (LZM) for face recognition. In recent years, local image representations such as Gabor and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) have attracted great interest due to their success in handling difficulties of face recognition. In this study, we aim to develop an alternative representation to further improve the face recognition performance. We achieve this by utilizing Zernike Moments which have been successfully used as shape descriptors for character recognition. We modify global Zernike moments to obtain a local representation by computing the moments at every pixel of a face image by considering its local neighborhood, thus decomposing the image into a set of images, moment components, to capture the micro structure around each pixel. Our experiments on FERET face database reveal the superior performance of LZM over Gabor and LBP representations.