An Improved ABC Algorithm Approach Using SURF for Face Identification

• Published in: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2012 Vol. 7435; pp. 143 - 150
• Main Authors: Chidambaram, Chidambaram, Marçal, Marlon Subtil, Dorini, Leyza Baldo, Vieira Neto, Hugo, Lopes, Heitor Silvério
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2012; Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: ABC algorithm; Face Identification; Image Variations; Interest Point Detectors; Still Images; SURF; Swarm Intelligence
• ISBN: 3642326382; 9783642326387
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32639-4_18

Face recognition is being intensively studied in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition. Working on still images with multiple faces is a challenging task due to the inherent characteristics of the images, the presence of blur, noise and occlusion, as well as variations of illumination, pose, rotation and scale. Besides being invariant to these factors, face recognition systems must be computationally efficient and robust. Swarm intelligence algorithms can be used for object recognition tasks. Based on this context, we propose a new approach using an improved ABC implementation and the interest point detector and descriptor SURF. To assess the robustness of our approach, we carry out experiments on images of several classes subject to different acquisition conditions.