Learning-based descriptor for 2-D face recognition.

Cao, Zhimin.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-34).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction and related work --- p.1Chapter 2 --- Learning-based descriptor for face recognition --- p.7Chapter 2.1 --- Overview of framework --- p.7Chapter 2.2 --- Learning-based descriptor extraction --- p.9Chapter 2.2.1 --- Sampling and normalization --- p.9Chapter 2.2.2 --- Learning-based encoding and histogram rep-resentation --- p.11Chapter 2.2.3 --- PCA dimension reduction --- p.12Chapter 2.2.4 --- Multiple LE descriptors --- p.14Chapter 2.3 --- Pose-adaptive matching --- p.16Chapter 2.3.1 --- Component -level face alignment --- p.17Chapter 2.3.2 --- Pose-adaptive matching --- p.17Chapter 2.3.3 --- Evaluations of pose-adaptive matching --- p.19Chapter 3 --- Experiment --- p.21Chapter 3.1 --- Results on the LFW benchmark --- p.21Chapter 3.2 --- Results on Multi-PIE --- p.24Chapter 4 --- Conclusion and future work --- p.27Chapter 4.1 --- Conclusion --- p.27Chapter 4.2 --- Future work --- p.28Bibliography --- p.3