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Existing face recognition techniques struggle with their performance when identities have to be determined (recognized) based on image data captured under challenging illumination conditions. To overcome the susceptibility of the existing techniques to illumination variations numerous normalization techniques have been proposed in the literature. These normalization techniques, however, still exhibit some shortcomings and, thus, offer room for improvement. In this paper we identify the most important weaknesses of the commonly adopted illumination normalization techniques and presents two novel approaches which make use of the recently proposed non-local means algorithm. We assess the performance of the proposed techniques on the YaleB face database and report preliminary results.
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Štruc, V., Pavešić, N. (2009). Illumination Invariant Face Recognition by Non-Local Smoothing. In: Fierrez, J., Ortega-Garcia, J., Esposito, A., Drygajlo, A., Faundez-Zanuy, M. (eds) Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication. BioID 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04391-8_1
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