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Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition

Tzimiropoulos, Georgios; Zafeiriou, Stefanos; Pantic, Maja

Authors

Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Stefanos Zafeiriou

Maja Pantic



Abstract

We introduce the notion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of image gradient orientations. As image data is typically noisy, but noise is substantially different from Gaussian, traditional PCA of pixel intensities very often fails to estimate reliably the low-dimensional subspace of a given data population. We show that replacing intensities with gradient orientations and the ?2 norm with a cosine-based distance measure offers, to some extend, a remedy to this problem. Our scheme requires the eigen-decomposition of a covariance matrix and is as computationally efficient as standard ?2 intensity-based PCA. We demonstrate some of its favorable properties for the application of face recognition.

Citation

Tzimiropoulos, G., Zafeiriou, S., & Pantic, M. (2011). Principal component analysis of image gradient orientations for face recognition.

Conference Name 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2011)
End Date Mar 25, 2011
Publication Date Mar 1, 2011
Deposit Date Feb 1, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Keywords Face recognition, Gradient methods, Principal component analysis
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1010213
Publisher URL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5771457&punumber%3D5765597%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A5771322%29%26pageNumber%3D4
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