Here an efficient fusion technique for automatic face recognition has been
presented. Fusion of visual and thermal images has been done to take the
advantages of thermal images as well as visual images. By employing fusion a
new image can be obtained, which provides the most detailed, reliable, and
discriminating information. In this method fused images are generated using
visual and thermal face images in the first step. In the second step, fused
images are projected into eigenspace and finally classified using a radial
basis function neural network.
Artificial neural networks have already shown their success in face
recognition and similar complex pattern recognition tasks. However, a major
disadvantage of the technique is that it is extremely slow during training for
larger classes and hence not suitable for real-time complex problems such as
pattern recognition. This is an attempt to develop a parallel framework for the
training algorithm of a perceptron. In this paper, two general architectures
for a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) have been demonstrated.
In this paper we present a comparative study on fusion of visual and thermal
images using different wavelet transformations. Here, coefficients of discrete
wavelet transforms from both visual and thermal images are computed separately
and combined. Next, inverse discrete wavelet transformation is taken in order
to obtain fused face image. Both Haar and Daubechies (db2) wavelet transforms
have been used to compare recognition results. For experiments IRIS
Thermal/Visual Face Database was used.
This paper presents a novel type-2 Fuzzy logic System to define the Shape of
a facial component with the crisp output. This work is the part of our main
research effort to design a system (called FASY) which offers a novel face
construction approach based on the textual description and also extracts and
analyzes the facial components from a face image by an efficient technique. The
Fuzzy model, designed in this paper, takes crisp value of width and height of a
facial component and produces the crisp value of Shape for different facial
components.
This paper deals with a new method for recognition of offline Handwritten
non-compound Devnagari Characters in two stages. It uses two well known and
established pattern recognition techniques: one using neural networks and the
other one using minimum edit distance. Each of these techniques is applied on
different sets of characters for recognition. In the first stage, two sets of
features are computed and two classifiers are applied to get higher recognition
accuracy. Two MLP's are used separately to recognize the characters.
Classification methods based on learning from examples have been widely
applied to character recognition from the 1990s and have brought forth
significant improvements of recognition accuracies. This class of methods
includes statistical methods, artificial neural networks, support vector
machines (SVM), multiple classifier combination, etc.