An illumination direction estimation algorithm of face images
Meiling Chen · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2021
Abstract Illumination is one of the important factors affecting the accuracy of face recognition. This paper proposes an illumination direction estimation algorithm of face images and it can be applied to the non-frontal face image. In order to eliminate the influence of face’s albedo, the algorithm use SfSNet to get the shading image. The algorithm divides the face region into eight regions by using five landmarks in face and estimate the illumination direction by analyzing the average brightness of each regions. Experiment on YaleB dataset shows that the algorithm can estimate the illumination direction correctly in most cases.