СREATING OF BARCODES FOR FACIAL IMAGES BASED ON INTENSITY GRADIENTS

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

2014 , VOLUME 14, NUMBER 3 ( MAY-JUNE )

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СREATING OF BARCODES FOR FACIAL IMAGES BASED ON INTENSITY GRADIENTS

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

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Abstract

The paper provides analysis of existing approaches to the generating of barcodes and description of the system structure for generating of barcodes from facial images. The method for generating of standard type linear barcodes from facial images is proposed. This method is based on the difference of intensity gradients, which represent images in the form of initial features. Further averaging of these features into a limited number of intervals is performed; the quantization of results into decimal digits from 0 to 9 and table conversion into the standard barcode is done. Testing was conducted on the Face94 database and database of composite faces of different ages. It showed that the proposed method ensures the stability of generated barcodes according to changes of scale, pose and mirroring of facial images, as well as changes of facial expressions and shadows on faces from local lighting. The proposed solutions are computationally low-cost and do not require the use of any specialized image processing software for generating of facial barcodes in real-time systems.

Keywords: facial images, brightness gradients, barcode, real-time systems

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