Adapted all-numerical correlator for face recognition applications

M. Elbouz; F. Bouzidi; A. Alfalou; C. Brosseau; I. Leonard; B.-E. Benkelfat

doi:10.1117/12.2014383

29 April 2013 Adapted all-numerical correlator for face recognition applications

M. Elbouz, F. Bouzidi, A. Alfalou, C. Brosseau, I. Leonard, B.-E. Benkelfat

Proceedings Volume 8748, Optical Pattern Recognition XXIV; 874807 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2014383
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

In this study, we suggest and validate an all-numerical implementation of a VanderLugt correlator which is optimized for face recognition applications. The main goal of this implementation is to take advantage of the benefits (detection, localization, and identification of a target object within a scene) of correlation methods and exploit the reconfigurability of numerical approaches. This technique requires a numerical implementation of the optical Fourier transform. We pay special attention to adapt the correlation filter to this numerical implementation. One main goal of this work is to reduce the size of the filter in order to decrease the memory space required for real time applications. To fulfil this requirement, we code the reference images with 8 bits and study the effect of this coding on the performances of several composite filters (phase-only filter, binary phase-only filter). The saturation effect has for effect to decrease the performances of the correlator for making a decision when filters contain up to nine references. Further, an optimization is proposed based for an optimized segmented composite filter. Based on this approach, we present tests with different faces demonstrating that the above mentioned saturation effect is significantly reduced while minimizing the size of the learning data base.

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M. Elbouz, F. Bouzidi, A. Alfalou, C. Brosseau, I. Leonard, and B.-E. Benkelfat "Adapted all-numerical correlator for face recognition applications", Proc. SPIE 8748, Optical Pattern Recognition XXIV, 874807 (29 April 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2014383

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