Scale-invariant face recognition method using spectral features of log-polar image
Kazuhiro Hotta, Takio Kurita, Taketoshi Mishima · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1999
This paper presents scale invariant face detection and classification methods which use spectral features extracted from Log-Polar image. Scale changes of a face in an image are represented as shift along the vertical axis in Log-Polar image. In order to make them robust to the scale changes of faces, spectral features are extracted from the each row of the Log-Polar image. Autocorrelations, Fourier power spectrum, and PARCOR coefficients are used as spectral features. Then these features are combined with simple classification methods based on the Linear Discriminant Analysis to realize scale invariant face detection and classification. The effectiveness of the proposed face detection method is confirmed by the experiment using the face images which are captured under the different scales, backgrounds, illuminations, and dates. We have also performed the experiments to evaluate the proposed face classification method using 2800 face images with 7 scales under 2 different backgrounds.