Recent advances in visual and infrared face recognition—a review

• Published in: Computer vision and image understanding Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 103 - 135
• Main Authors: Kong, Seong G., Heo, Jingu, Abidi, Besma R., Paik, Joonki, Abidi, Mongi A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 2005; Elsevier
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry; Infrared spectrometry; Infrared thermography; Image recognition; Face recognition; Imaging; Information retrieval; Tridimensional image; Thermal imaging; Pattern recognition

Face recognition is a rapidly growing research area due to increasing demands for security in commercial and law enforcement applications. This paper provides an up-to-date review of research efforts in face recognition techniques based on two-dimensional (2D) images in the visual and infrared (IR)...