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Face recognition method based on HOG and DMMA from single training sample

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Single training sample for face recognition technology has become one of the important topics in the field of computer vision, and presents various challenges and opportunities. In this paper, an improved method based on discriminative multi-manifold analysis (DMMA) algorithm is proposed for the single training sample problem in face recognition. The major contributions of the paper are that a novel method by fusing Histogram of the Oriented Gradient (HOG) features and DMMA algorithm is proposed, and a new adaptive method is applied to calculate similarity between patches of the face image. First, each face image is partitioned into several non-overlapping patches to form an image set for each sample per person. Then HOG operator is used to extract image histogram of each an image set, and the histogram of each an image set forms a statistics manifold. Finally, DMMA algorithm is applied to obtain the low-dimensional face image features, and the reconstruction-based manifold-manifold distance is used to identify the unlabeled faces. The performance of the proposed method is verified on the FERET and AR face databases. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is superior to the general DMMA recognition algorithms under illumination variation and geometry transformation.

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This work is supported by the Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China (Grant No. F201407).

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  1. College of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

    Ji Qingbo, Zheng Enze, Xie Yu & Lin Yun

  2. Chinese Aeronautical Radio Electronics Research Institute, Shanghai, China

    Yue Xinqi

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, USA

    Lin Yun

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Qingbo, J., Enze, Z., Xinqi, Y. et al. Face recognition method based on HOG and DMMA from single training sample. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 13163–13177 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-3005-7

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