Near infrared face recognition using Zernike moments and Hermite kernels

• Main Authors: Farokhi, Sajad, Sheikh, Usman Ullah, Flusser, Jan, Yang, Bo
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Inc. 2015
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58631/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2015.04.030

This work proposes a novel face recognition method based on Zernike moments (ZMs) and Hermite kernels (HKs) to cope with variations in facial expression, changes in head pose and scale, occlusions due to wearing eyeglasses and the effects of time lapse. Near infrared images are used to tackle the im...