Near-infrared and visible light image fusion algorithm for face recognition

In order to improve face recognition accuracy, we present a simple near-infrared (NIR) and visible light (VL) image fusion algorithm based on two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis (2DLDA). We first use two such schemes to extract two classes of face discriminant features of each of NIR and VL images separately. Then the two classes of features of each kind of images are fused using the matching score fusion method. At last, a simple NIR and VL image fusion approach is exploited to combine the scores of NIR and VL images and to obtain the classification result. The experimental results show that the proposed NIR and VL image fusion approach can effectively improve the accuracy of face recognition.