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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
May. 31, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chengjun Liu, West Orange, NJ (US);
Harry Wechsler, Fairfax, VA (US);
Assignee:
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method and system for determining the similarity between an image and at least one training sample is disclosed. This invention is a novel Gabor Feature Classifier (GFC), a principal application of which may be for face recognition. The GFC applies the Enhanced FLD Model (EFM) to an augmented Gabor feature vector derived from the Gabor wavelet transformation of images.