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Robust recognition of noisy and partially occluded faces is essential for an automated face recognition system, but most appearance-based methods (e.g., Eigenfaces) are sensitive to these factors. In this paper, we propose to address this problem using an iteratively reweighted fitting of the Eigenfaces method (IRF-Eigenfaces). Unlike Eigenfaces fitting, in which a simple linear projection operation is used to extract the feature vector, the IRF-Eigenfaces method first defines a generalized objective function and then uses the iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) fitting algorithm to extract the feature vector by minimizing the generalized objective function. Our simulated and experimental results on the AR database show that IRF-Eigenfaces is far superior to both Eigenfaces and to the local probabilistic method in recognizing noisy and partially occluded faces.
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Zuo, W., Wang, K., Zhang, D. (2006). Robust Recognition of Noisy and Partially Occluded Faces Using Iteratively Reweighted Fitting of Eigenfaces. In: Zhuang, Y., Yang, SQ., Rui, Y., He, Q. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2006. PCM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4261. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11922162_96
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