title: Boosting color feature selection for color face recognition.
abstract: This paper introduces the new color face recognition (FR) method that makes effective use of boosting learning as color-component feature selection framework. The proposed boosting color-component feature selection framework is designed for finding the best set of color-component features from various color spaces (or models), aiming to achieve the best FR performance for a given FR task. In addition, to facilitate the complementary effect of the selected color-component features for the purpose of color FR, they are combined using the proposed weighted feature fusion scheme. The effectiveness of our color FR method has been successfully evaluated on the following five public face databases (DBs): CMU-PIE, Color FERET, XM2VTSDB, SCface, and FRGC 2.0. Experimental results show that the results of the proposed method are impressively better than the results of other state-of-the-art color FR methods over different FR challenges including highly uncontrolled illumination, moderate pose variation, and small resolution face images.
authors.affiliation: Image and Video Systems Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. jygchoi@kaist.ac.kr
authors.forename: Jae Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Yong Man
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Ro
authors.forename: Konstantinos N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Plataniotis
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005145:Face; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D013382:Subtraction Technique