Hybrid image matching combining Hausdorff distance with normalized gradient matching |
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Authors: | Chyuan-Huei Thomas Yang [Author Vitae] Long-Wen Chang [Author Vitae] |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Computer Science, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan 300, ROC |
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Abstract: | Image matching has been a central problem in computer vision and image processing for decades. Most of the previous approaches to image matching can be categorized into the intensity-based and edge-based comparison. Hausdorff distance has been widely used for comparing point sets or edge maps since it does not require point correspondences. In this paper, we propose a new image similarity measure combining the Hausdorff distance with a normalized gradient consistency score for image matching. The normalized gradient consistency score is designed to compare the normalized image gradient fields between two images to alleviate the illumination variation problem in image matching. By combining the edge-based and intensity-based information for image matching, we are able to achieve robust image matching under different lighting conditions. We show the superior robustness property of the proposed image matching technique through experiments on face recognition under different lighting conditions. |
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Keywords: | Image matching Illumination variation Face recognition Hausdorff distance Normalized gradient |
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