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The computer vision problem of face classification under several ambient and unfavorable conditions is considered in this study. Changes in expression, different lighting conditions and occlusions are the relevant factors that are studied in this present contribution. Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) technique is introduced in the context of face classification and a direct comparison with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is also analyzed. Two leading techniques in face recognition are also considered in this study noticing that NMF is able to improve these techniques when a high dimensional feature space is used. Finally, different distance metrics (L1, L2 and correlation) are evaluated in the feature space defined by NMF in order to determine the best one for this specific problem. Experiments demonstrate that the correlation is the most suitable metric for this problem.
This work is supported by Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca del Departament de la Presidencia de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia grant TIC2000-0399-C02-01.
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Guillamet, D., Vitrià, J. (2002). Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition. In: Escrig, M.T., Toledo, F., Golobardes, E. (eds) Topics in Artificial Intelligence. CCIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36079-4_29
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