Studies on Hyperspectral Face Recognition in Visible Spectrum With Feature Band Selection

: This paper studies face recognition by using hyperspectral imagery in the visible light bands. The spectral measurements over the visible spectrum have different discriminatory information for the task of face identification, and it is found that the absorption bands related to hemoglobin are more discriminative than the other bands. Therefore, feature band selection based on the physical absorption characteristics of face skin is performed and two feature band subsets are selected. Then, three methods are proposed for hyperspectral face recognition, including whole band (2D)2 PCA, single band (2D)2 PCA with decision level fusion, and band subset fusion based (2D)2 PCA. A simple yet efficient decision level fusion strategy is also proposed for the later two methods. To testify the proposed techniques, a hyperspectral face database was established, which contains 25 subjects and has 33 bands over the visible light spectrum (0.4m - 0.72m). The experimental results demonstrated that mul...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TSMC
• Authors: Wei Di, Lei Zhang 0006, David Zhang, Quan Pan
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Decision Level Fusion, Face Recognition, Hyperspectral Face, TSMC 2010