Report On RBL Review I

Side View Face Recognition Using DWT

and Random Forest





Guide Signature Student Signature
Guide Name: Prof. R.Ramesh Student Name: Shrikant Sudhakar kumbhar
School: SENSE Specialization/Semester: Image Processing/III sem
Date: 16.09.2014 Date: 16.09.2014






Introduction:
Face Recognition is one of the most relevant applications of image analysis. Its a main
challenge to build an automated system which could recognize faces like human. Although
humans are quite good enough in identifying known faces, with a large amount of different
unknown faces. The computers, with having almost limitless and intelligence memory with high
computational speed, should overcome the humans limitations in all areas. Face Recognition is
an advance and important tool in order to overcome the problems of todays world. It is
applicable to deal with several real-world applications like video surveillance, human-machine
interaction, authentication, human-computer interface and video indexing. Face Recognition is a
relevant subject in pattern recognition, computer graphics, and image processing neural networks
and psychology.

Literature Review:
One of the major challenges encountered by current face recognition techniques lies in
the difficulties of handling varying poses, i.e recognition of faces in arbitrary in-depth rotations.
Zhang et al. provides a critical survey of researches on image-based face recognition across
pose. The existing techniques are comprehensively reviewed and discussed. They are classified
into different categories according to their methodologies in handling pose variations. often
larger than the inter-person differences used in distinguishing identities
Side-view face recognition is a challenging problem with many applications. Especially
in real-life scenarios where the environment is uncontrolled, coping with pose variations up to
side-view positions is an important task for face recognition. Ding et al. provides a novel side-
view face authentication method based on discrete wavelet transform and random forest. A
subset selection method that increases the number of training samples and allows subsets to
preserve the global information is presented.

Objectives and Scope:
The aim of this paper is to implement a side-view face authentication method based on
discrete wavelet transform and random forest classifier
Face recognition is relevant to several image processing applications such as surveillance
system human-machine interaction, authentication, human- computer interface and video
indexing










Methodology:
Fig.1 gives the proposed methodology for side view face recognition. The following steps are
involved
Profile curve extraction
Wavelet decomposition
Subset splitting
Random forest verification


Fig.1 Flow diagram of proposed approach
Work done:
PROFILE CURVE EXTRACTION
This is the first step in side view face recognition and is one of the silhouette
method where outline of face curve is extracted. For curve extraction canny edge detector
is used. Because it has nature of hysteresis thresholding. It means that the edge detected
by two thresholds such as low threshold connected to high threshold line and low
threshold edge which are not connected to high threshold are neglected. In Fig.2 location
of nose, forehead and chin is denoted by asterisks. Fig.3 show extracted curve from
original image. Also vector representation shown in Fig.4

Fig.2. Original image with detected nose, forehead and chin Fig.3.Face outline of curve



Fig.4. Converting curve to vector representation

Work to be done:
Wavelet decomposition
Subset splitting
Random forest verification