<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In this work, a modified version of the elastic bunch graph matching (EBGM) algorithm for face recognition is introduced. First, faces are detected by using a fuzzy skin detector based on the RGB color space. Then, the fiducial points for the facial graph are extracted automatically by adjusting a grid of points to the result of an edge detector. After that, the position of the nodes, their relation with their neighbors and their Gabor jets are calculated in order to obtain the feature vector defining each face. A self-organizing map (SOM) framework is shown afterwards. Thus, the calculation of the winning neuron and the recognition process are performed by using a similarity function that takes into account both the geometric and texture information of the facial graph. The set of experiments carried out for our SOM-EBGM method shows the accuracy of our proposal when compared with other state-of the-art methods.</p></abstract>

In this work, a modified version of the elastic bunch graph matching (EBGM) algorithm for face recognition is introduced. First, faces are detected by using a fuzzy skin detector based on the RGB color space. Then, the fiducial points for the facial graph are extracted automatically by adjusting a grid of points to the result of an edge detector. After that, the position of the nodes, their relation with their neighbors and their Gabor jets are calculated in order to obtain the feature vector defining each face. A self-organizing map (SOM) framework is shown afterwards. Thus, the calculation of the winning neuron and the recognition process are performed by using a similarity function that takes into account both the geometric and texture information of the facial graph. The set of experiments carried out for our SOM-EBGM method shows the accuracy of our proposal when compared with other state-of the-art methods.

A connectionist computational method for face recognition

Department of Computer Technology University of Alicante, 03690, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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In this work, a modified version of the elastic bunch graph matching (EBGM) algorithm for face recognition is introduced. First, faces are detected by using a...

A connectionist computational method for face recognition

Published Online: Jul 02, 2016

Page range: 451 - 465

Received: May 17, 2015

Accepted: Feb 15, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2016-0032

Keywords
pattern recognition, face recognition, neural networks, self-organizing maps

© by Higinio Mora

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A connectionist computational method for face recognition

Published Online: Jul 02, 2016

Page range: 451 - 465

Received: May 17, 2015

Accepted: Feb 15, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/amcs-2016-0032

Keywordspattern recognition, face recognition, neural networks, self-organizing maps

© by Higinio Mora

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
pattern recognition, face recognition, neural networks, self-organizing maps