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	%0 Journal Article
	%A Sanghoon Kim and  Sun-Tae Chung and  Souhwan Jung and  Seoungseon Jeon and  Jaemin Kim and  Seongwon Cho
	%D 2007
	%J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 9, 2007
	%T Robust Face Recognition using AAM and Gabor Features
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3583
	%V 9
	%X In this paper, we propose a face recognition algorithm
using AAM and Gabor features. Gabor feature vectors which are well
known to be robust with respect to small variations of shape, scaling,
rotation, distortion, illumination and poses in images are popularly
employed for feature vectors for many object detection and
recognition algorithms. EBGM, which is prominent among face
recognition algorithms employing Gabor feature vectors, requires
localization of facial feature points where Gabor feature vectors are
extracted. However, localization method employed in EBGM is based
on Gabor jet similarity and is sensitive to initial values. Wrong
localization of facial feature points affects face recognition rate. AAM
is known to be successfully applied to localization of facial feature
points. In this paper, we devise a facial feature point localization
method which first roughly estimate facial feature points using AAM
and refine facial feature points using Gabor jet similarity-based facial
feature localization method with initial points set by the rough facial
feature points obtained from AAM, and propose a face recognition
algorithm using the devised localization method for facial feature
localization and Gabor feature vectors. It is observed through
experiments that such a cascaded localization method based on both
AAM and Gabor jet similarity is more robust than the localization
method based on only Gabor jet similarity. Also, it is shown that the
proposed face recognition algorithm using this devised localization
method and Gabor feature vectors performs better than the
conventional face recognition algorithm using Gabor jet
similarity-based localization method and Gabor feature vectors like
EBGM.
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