Face Recognition under Varying Illumination

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel pipeline to develop a Face Recognition System robust to illumination variation. We consider the case when only one single image per person is available during the training phase. In order to utilize the superiority of Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) over Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in regard to variable illumination, a number of new images illuminated from different directions are synthesized from a single image by means of the Quotient Image. Furthermore, during the testing phase, an iterative algorithm is used for the restoration of frontal illumination of a face illuminated from any arbitrary angle. Experimental results on the YaleB database show that our approach can achieve a top recognition rate compared to existing methods and can be integrated into real time face recognition system.