A robust keypoints matching strategy for SIFT: An application to face recognition

Minkook Cho, Hyeyoung Park

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Abstract

Recently, the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) proposed by Lowe has emerged as a cut edge methodology in general object recognition as well as for other machine vision applications. However, SIFT method has not shown successful results in face recognition problem because of its original matching strategy which does not consider the location of local keypoints. This paper proposes a novel keypoints matching strategy for face recognition. The proposed matching strategy can avoid mis-matching of local keypoints by using regular grid of face image and can give robustness to various transformations by using keypoint voting strategy. By performing computational experiment on the AR face data set, we confirmed the proposed matching strategy gives better performance than the conventional methods. Especially, the proposed method can give robust and best performance for facial images with occlusions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 16th International Conference, ICONIP 2009, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages716-723
Number of pages8
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)3642106765, 9783642106767
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2009 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 1 Dec 20095 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume5863 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2009
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period1/12/095/12/09

Keywords

  • Face recognition
  • Matching strategy
  • Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)

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