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- Title
Adaptive gamma correction-based expert system for nonuniform illumination face enhancement.
- Authors
Abdelhamid, Iratni; Mustapha, Aouache; Adel, Oulefki
- Abstract
The image quality of a face recognition system suffers under severe lighting conditions. Thus, this study aims to develop an approach for nonuniform illumination adjustment based on an adaptive gamma correction (AdaptGC) filter that can solve the aforementioned issue. An approach for adaptive gain factor prediction was developed via neural network model-based cross-validation (NN-CV). To achieve this objective, a gamma correction function and its effects on the face image quality with different gain values were examined first. Second, an orientation histogram (OH) algorithm was assessed as a face's feature descriptor. Subsequently, a density histogram module was developed for face label generation. During the NN-CV construction, the model was assessed to recognize the OH descriptor and predict the face label. The performance of the NN-CV model was evaluated by examining the statistical measures of root mean square error and coefficient of efficiency. Third, to evaluate the AdaptGC enhancement approach, an image quality metric was adopted using enhancement by entropy, contrast per pixel, second-derivative-like measure of enhancement, and sharpness, then supported by visual inspection. The experiment results were examined using five face's databases, namely, extended Yale-B, Carnegie Mellon University-Pose, Illumination, and Expression, Mobio, FERET, and Dulu-CASIA-NIR-VIS. The final results prove that AdaptGC filter implementation compared with state-of-the-art methods is the best choice in terms of contrast and nonuniform illumination adjustment. In summary, the benefits attained prove that AdaptGC is driven by a profitable enhancement rate, which provides satisfying features for high rate face recognition systems. ©2018 SPIEand IS&T[DDI: 10.1117/1.JEI.27.2.023028]
- Subjects
EXPERT systems; HUMAN facial recognition software; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; IMAGE processing; SYNTHETIC aperture radar
- Publication
Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1017-9909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1117/1.JEI.27.2.023028