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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2005
Jinho Lee, Belmont, MA (US);
Baback Moghaddam, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hanspeter Pfister, Arlington, MA (US);
Raghu Machiraju, Dublin, OH (US);
Jinho Lee, Belmont, MA (US);
Baback Moghaddam, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hanspeter Pfister, Arlington, MA (US);
Raghu Machiraju, Dublin, OH (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method generates a three-dimensional, bi-linear, illumination model for arbitrary faces. A large number of images are acquired of many different faces. For each face, multiple images are acquired with varying poses and varying illumination. A three-mode singular value decomposition is applied to the images to determine parameters of the model. The model can be fit to a probe image of an unknown face. Then, the model can be compared with models of a gallery of images of unknown faces to recognize the face in the probe image.