一种基于小波的人脸图像光照归一化算法

光照变化严重影响了人脸图像的外貌，这阻碍了人脸识别的过程。为了识别可变光照下的人脸图像，提出了一种基于小波的光照归一化算法，将一幅图像分解为低频成分和高频成分，对不同的频带成分进行不同的操作——对低频成分进行直方图均衡化，同时着重强调细节（高频成分），将它乘以一个标量从而增强图像边缘；对修改后的系数进行逆小波变换就得到归一化后的图像。最后，直接使用PCA方法对单训练样本条件下的人脸进行识别，在AR和FERRET人脸库上的实验结果表明，提出的方法可以显著提高人脸识别系统的识别率。

Wavelet-based illumination normalization algorithm for face recognition

The appearance of a face image is severely affected by illumination conditions that hinder the automatic face recognition process.To recognize faces under varying illuminations,a wavelet-based normalization method is proposed so as to normalize illuminations.An image is decomposed into its low frequency and high frequency components.Then different band coefficients are manipulated separately.Histogram equalization is applied to the approximation (low frequency) coefficients and at the same time accentuate t...