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We present a neural system that recognizes faces under strong variations in pose and illumination. The generalization is learnt completely on the basis of examples of a subset of persons (the model database) in frontal and rotated view and under different illuminations. Similarities in identical pose/illumination are calculated by bunch graph matching, identity is coded by similarity rank lists. A neural network based on spike timing decodes these rank lists. We show that identity decisions can be made on the basis of few spikes. Recognition results on a large database of Chinese faces show that the transformations were successfully learnt.
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Müller, M.K., Würtz, R.P. (2009). Learning from Examples to Generalize over Pose and Illumination. In: Alippi, C., Polycarpou, M., Panayiotou, C., Ellinas, G. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009. ICANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04277-5_65
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