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Illumination variation is one of the most challenging problems for robust face recognition. In this paper, after investigating the ratio relationship between two neighboring pixels in a digital image, we proposed two illumination-insensitive features, i.e., the non-directional local reflectance normalization (NDLRN) and the fused multi-directional local reflectance normalization (fMDLRN), which not only effectively reduce illumination difference among facial images under different illumination conditions, but also preserve the facial details. Experimental results show that NDLRN and fMDLRN can significantly alleviate the adverse effect of complex illumination on face recognition.
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Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20131342); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61305011); Fuzhou Science and Technology Planning Project (2016-S-116 and 2015-PT-91); Technology Project of Provincial University of Fujian Province (JK2014040); Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University (NCETFJ); Program for Young Scholars in Minjiang University (Mjqn201601); Key Project of College Youth Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (JZ160467); the Open Fund Project of Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Processing and Intelligent Control (Minjiang University) (No. MJUKF201712).
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Cheng, Y., Jiao, L., Cao, X. et al. Illumination-insensitive features for face recognition. Vis Comput 33, 1483–1493 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-017-1357-x
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