使用模块化PCA法改进面部识别技术毕业论文外文翻译.docVIP

附 一、英文原文 on modular PCA approach Rajkiran Gottumukkal Vijayan K.Asari Abstract A face recognition algorithm based on modular PCA approach is presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm when compared with conventional PCA algorithm has an improved recognition rate for face images with large variations in lighting direction and facial expression. In the proposed technique, the face images are divided into smaller sub-images and the PCA approach is applied to each of these sub-images. Since some of the local facial features of an individual do not vary even when the pose, lighting direction and facial expression vary, we expect the proposed method to be able to cope with these variations. The accuracy of the conventional PCA method and modular PCA method are evaluated under the conditions of varying expression, illumination and pose using standard face databases. Keywords: PCA; Face recognition; Modular PCA; Pose invariance; Illumination invariance 1. Introduction Face recognition is a difficult problem because of the generally similar shape of faces combined with the numerous variations between images of the same face. The image of a face changes with facial expression, age, viewpoint, illumination conditions, noise etc. The task of a face recognition system is to recognize a face in a manner that is as independent as possible of these image variations. Automatic recognition of faces is considered as one of the fundamental problems in computer vision and pattern analysis, and many scientists from different areas have addressed it. Chellappa et al. (1995) presented a survey on several statistical-based, neural network-based and feature-based methods for face recognition. Currently, one of the methods that yields promising results on frontal face recognition is the principal component analysis (PCA),which is a statistical approach where face images are expressed as a subset of their eigenvectors, and hence called eigenfaces (Sirovich and Kirby,1987; Turk and Pe