Dattatray V. Jadhav

Feature extraction using Radon and wavelet transforms with application to face recognition

This paper presents a new pattern recognition framework for face recognition based on the combination of Radon and wavelet transforms, which is invariant to variations in facial expression, and illumination. It is also robust to zero mean white noise. The technique computes Radon projections in different orientations and captures the directional features of face images. Further, the wavelet transform applied on Radon space provides multiresolution features of the facial images. Being the line integral, Radon transform improves the low-frequency components that are useful in face recognition. For classification, the nearest neighbor classifier has been used. Experimental results using FERET, ORL, Yale and YaleB databases show the superiority of the proposed method with some of the existing popular algorithms.

Fast communication: Radon and discrete cosine transforms based feature extraction and dimensionality reduction approach for face recognition

This paper presents a pattern recognition framework for face recognition based on the combination of Radon and discrete cosine transforms (DCT). The property of Radon transform to enhance the low frequency components, which are useful for face recognition, has been exploited to derive the effective facial features. Data compaction property of DCT yields lower-dimensional feature vector. The proposed technique computes Radon projections in different orientations and captures the directional features of the face images. Further, DCT applied on Radon projections provides frequency features. The technique is invariant to in-plane rotation (tilt) and robust to zero mean white noise. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using FERET and ORL databases. The experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method compared to some of the existing algorithms.

Text-independent speaker identification using Radon and discrete cosine transforms based features from speech spectrogram

This paper presents a new feature extraction technique for speaker recognition using Radon transform (RT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT). The spectrogram is compact, efficient in representation and carries information about acoustic features in the form of pattern. In the proposed method, speaker specific features have been extracted by applying image processing techniques to the pattern available in the spectrogram. Radon transform has been used to derive the effective acoustic features from the speech spectrogram. Radon transform adds up the pixel values in the given image along a straight line in a particular direction and at a specific displacement. The proposed technique computes Radon projections for seven orientations and captures the acoustic characteristics of the spectrogram. DCT applied on Radon projections yields low dimensional feature vector. The technique is computationally efficient, text-independent, robust to session variations and insensitive to additive noise. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been evaluated using the Texas Instruments and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIMIT) and our own created Shri Guru Gobind Singhji (SGGS) databases. The recognition rate of the proposed algorithm on TIMIT database (consisting of 630 speakers) is 96.69% and for SGGS database (consisting of 151 speakers) is 98.41%. These results highlight the superiority of the proposed method over some of the existing algorithms.

Rotation, illumination invariant polynomial kernel Fisher discriminant analysis using Radon and discrete cosine transforms based features for face recognition

This paper presents an in-plane rotation (tilt), illumination invariant pattern recognition framework based on the combination of the features extracted using Radon and discrete cosine transforms and kernel based learning for face recognition. The use of Radon transform enhances the low frequency components, which are useful for face recognition and that of DCT yields low dimensional feature vector. The proposed technique computes Radon projections in different orientations and captures the directional features of the face images. DCT applied on Radon projections provides frequency features. Further, polynomial kernel Fisher discriminant analysis implemented on these features enhances discrimination capability of these features. The technique is also robust to zero mean white noise. The feasibility of the proposed technique has been evaluated using FERET, ORL, and Yale databases.

Multiresolution based Kernel Fisher Discriminant Model for Face Recognition

This paper presents a wavelet Kernel Fisher classifier (WKFC) for face recognition. Wavelet transform is used to derive the multiresolution based desirable facial features. Three level decomposition is used to form the pyramidal multiresolution features to cope with the variations due to illumination and facial expression changes. The Kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) method maps the input multiresolution data into an implicit feature space with a non linear mapping. The Fisher classifier is applied to multiresolution featured KPCA mapped data. The effectiveness of the WKFC algorithm is compared with different algorithms for face recognition using ORL and FERET databases. This algorithm outperforms the other existing algorithms

Fast discrete curvelet transform based anisotropic iris coding and recognition using k-out-of-n: A fused post-classifier

This paper presents rotation invariant technique for iris feature extraction and fused post-classification at the decision level to improve the performance under non-ideal environmental conditions. In this work, directional iris texture features based on two-dimensional (2D) Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) are computed. This approach divides the normalized iris image into six sub-images. The curvelet transform is applied on each sub-image. The feature vector for each sub-image is derived using the directional energies of these curvelet coefficients. These distances are fused at the decision level through novel post-classifier using k-out-of-n: A scheme to reduce the false rejection rate. The feasibility of the proposed algorithm has been tested using UBIRIS, MMU1 and CASIA-Iris V2.0 databases and performance is compared with some of the well-known existing iris recognition algorithms. The experimental results show that the performance is comparable with some of the state-of-the-art iris recognition algorithms.

Multiresolution Feature Based Subspace Analysis for Fingerprint Recognition

The image intensity surface in an ideal fingerprint image contains a limited range of spatial frequencies, and mutually distinct textures differ significantly in their dominant frequencies. This paper presents a multiresolution feature based subspace technique for fingerprint recognition. The technique computes the core point of fingerprint and crops the image to predefined size. The multiresolution features of aligned fingerprint are computed using 2-D discrete wavelet transform. LL component in wavelet decomposition is concatenated to form the fingerprint feature. Principal component analysis is performed on these features to extract the features with reduced dimensionality. The algorithm is effective and efficient in extracting the features. It is also robust to noise. Experimental results using the FVC2002 and Bologna databases show the feasibility of the proposed method..

A multi-modal and multi-algorithmic biometric system combining iris and face

In this paper, we have developed an algorithm which combines features from human iris and face for person verification. Iris recognition is one of the most accurate biometric modalities having verification results close to 98%. On the other hand, face is one of the most widely used biometric features because of its ease of capture. We have adapted score level fusion strategy for our system. However, in addition to this, we are using two different features for face: Gabor filters based and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) based. The iris features are extracted using Daugmans Gabor filters based approach. Using this information, we have developed a multi-modal (combining iris and face), multi-algorithmic (using two different algorithms for feature extraction from face) biometric system. With this system, we achieved more than 85% improvement in the verification performance in terms of Equal Error Rate as compared to the uni-biometrics based system.

Real time human face location and recognition system using single training image per person

This paper presents an automatic real time face location and recognition system. The proposed approach detects the face using the combination of hue, saturation and intensity (H SI) and luminance, red chrominance and blue chrominance (Y CrCb) color Space models. The left most, right most and top most pixels of face are detected using threshold values of parameters. One of the eyes is located using the blue chrominance. The second eye, center of the eyes, and the bottom most part of face is detected using geometrical similarity. The face is cropped using these defined boundaries to extract facial region only. The facial features of cropped image are extracted using the combination of Radon and wavelet transform. The technique computes Radon projections in different orientations and captures the directional features of face images. Further the wavelet transform applied on Radon space provides multiresolution features of the facial images. For classification, the nearest neighbor classifier has been used. The performance and robustness of the proposed system is tested on a face database of 785 images of 157 subjects acquired in conditions similar to those encountered in real world applications. The system achieves a recognition rate of 97.8 % and an equal error rate (EER) of about 2.4% for 157 subjects.

Multiresolution Feature Based Fractional Power Polynomial Kernel Fisher Discriminant Model for Face Recognition

This paper prese nts a technique for face recognition which uses wavelet transform to derive desirable facial features. Three level decompositions are used to form the pyramidal multiresolution features to cope with the variations due to illumination and facial expression changes. The fractional power polynomial kernel maps the input data into an implicit feature space with a nonlinear mapping. Being linear in the feature space, but nonlinear in the input space, kernel is capable of deriving low dimensional features that incorporate higher order statistic. The Linear Discriminant Analysis is applied to kernel mapped multiresolution featured data. The effectiveness of this Wavelet Kernel Fisher Classifier algorithm is compared with the different existing popular algorithms for face recognition using FERET, ORL Yale and YaleB databases. This algorithm performs better than some of the existing popular algorithms.