Improved local binary pattern with pyramid model and its application in face recognition
by Weiguo He
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), Vol. 13, No. 3/4, 2014

Abstract: The local binary pattern (LBP) is an effective facial descriptor which has been successful as it applies to face recognition. This paper presents an improved LBP with a pyramid model and in face recognition applications, in which a separate output label for each uniform pattern and all non-uniform patterns is reclassified instead of collecting them into a single bin. Firstly, each pixel in the low spatial pyramid is obtained by down sampling from its adjacent low-pass filtered high-resolution image. Secondly, for each pyramid, the face area is divided into small regions from which those pixels whose patterns is 'non-uniform' are further processed to extract their LBP pattern with a smaller radius, and replace the non-uniform pattern with the pattern in a small radius. In the final radius tier, those non-uniform patterns are incorporated into existing uniform patterns by minimising the Hamming distance between this pattern and the uniform patterns. Finally, all histograms are concentrated into a single, spatially enhanced feature vector to be used as a face descriptor, in which all patterns are uniform. The experiment on the ORL face dataset, as well as the Honda/UCSD video database shows that the proposed scheme is superior to other related methods.

Online publication date: Sat, 13-Sep-2014

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