TY - GEN
T1 - Thermal face recognition using local interest points and descriptors for HRI applications
AU - Hermosilla, Gabriel
AU - Loncomilla, Patricio
AU - Ruiz-Del-Solar, Javier
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially funded by FONDECYT under Project Number 1090250.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this article a robust thermal face recognition methodology based on the use of local interest points and descriptors, is proposed. The methodology consists of the following stages: face segmentation, vascular network detection, wide baseline matching using local interest points and descriptors, and classification. The main contribution of this work is the use of a standard wide baseline matching methodology for the comparison of vascular networks from thermal face images. The proposed methodology is validated using a database of thermal images. This work could be of high interest for HRI applications related with the visual recognition of humans, as the ones included in the RoboCup @Home league, because the use of thermal images may overcome limitations such as dependency on illumination conditions and facial expressions.
AB - In this article a robust thermal face recognition methodology based on the use of local interest points and descriptors, is proposed. The methodology consists of the following stages: face segmentation, vascular network detection, wide baseline matching using local interest points and descriptors, and classification. The main contribution of this work is the use of a standard wide baseline matching methodology for the comparison of vascular networks from thermal face images. The proposed methodology is validated using a database of thermal images. This work could be of high interest for HRI applications related with the visual recognition of humans, as the ones included in the RoboCup @Home league, because the use of thermal images may overcome limitations such as dependency on illumination conditions and facial expressions.
KW - Blood Vessels Matching
KW - Face Recognition
KW - RoboCup @Home
KW - SIFT Matching
KW - Thermal Images
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953253926&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-20217-9_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-20217-9_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79953253926
SN - 9783642202162
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 25
EP - 35
BT - RoboCup 2010
T2 - 14th Annual RoboCup International Symposium
Y2 - 25 June 2010 through 25 June 2010
ER -