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Face recognition using Krawtchouk moment

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Feature extraction is one of the important tasks in face recognition. Moments are widely used feature extractor due to their superior discriminatory power and geometrical invariance. Moments generally capture the global features of the image. This paper proposes Krawtchouk moment for feature extraction in face recognition system, which has the ability to extract local features from any region of interest. Krawtchouk moment is used to extract both local features and global features of the face. The extracted features are fused using summed normalized distance strategy. Nearest neighbour classifier is employed to classify the faces. The proposed method is tested using ORL and Yale databases. Experimental results show that the proposed method is able to recognize images correctly, even if the images are corrupted with noise and possess change in facial expression and tilt.

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  1. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Valiamala, Trivandrum, 695 547, India

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  2. Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, 626 126, India

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RANI, J.S., DEVARAJ, D. Face recognition using Krawtchouk moment. Sadhana 37, 441–460 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-012-0090-4

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