A novel illumination normalization method based on local relation map

• Main Authors: Lian, Zhichao, Er, Meng Joo, Li, Juekun
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101917; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12788
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents a novel illumination normalization method to address the issue of illumination invariant face recognition. The proposed method applies a Difference of Gaussians (DoG) filter in the logarithm domain of the images to reduce the effects caused by the shadows. After that, a local rel...