EXPRESS METHOD OF BARCODE GENERATION FROM FACIAL IMAGES

Kukharev Georgy A., Matveev Yuri Nikolaevich, Nadezhda L. Shchegoleva

2014 , VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2 ( MARCH-APRIL )

ISSN 2226-1494 (print), ISSN 2500-0373 (online)

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EXPRESS METHOD OF BARCODE GENERATION FROM FACIAL IMAGES

G. A. Kukharev, Y. N. Matveev, N. L. Shchegoleva

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Abstract

In the paper a method of generating of standard type linear barcodes from facial images is proposed. The method is based on use of the histogram of facial image brightness, averaging the histogram on a limited number of intervals, quantization of results in a range of decimal numbers from 0 to 9 and table conversion into the final barcode.
The proposed solution is computationally low-cost and not requires the use of specialized software on image processing that allows generating of facial barcodes in mobile systems, and thus the proposed method can be interpreted as an express method. Results of tests on the Face94 and CUHK Face Sketch FERET Databases showed that the proposed method is a new solution for use in the real-world practice and ensures the stability of generated barcodes in changes of scale, pose and mirroring of a facial image, and also changes of a facial expression and shadows on faces from local lighting. The proposed method is based on generating of a standard barcode directly from the facial image, and thus contains the subjective information about a person's face.

Keywords: cellular automata, genetic algorithms

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