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Further to previous work showing the superiority of the pre-processing algorithm developed by Gross and Brajovic, we propose improvements that remove the need for parameter selection. In extensive experimentation on the XM2VTS database, the Yale B database and the BANCA database, we show that our method of automatic parameter selection can produce better results than setting the parameter to a single value for the whole database.
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Short, J., Kittler, J., Messer, K. (2005). Photometric Normalisation for Face Verification. In: Kanade, T., Jain, A., Ratha, N.K. (eds) Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication. AVBPA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3546. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527923_64
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