International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence, 2020
In recent years, several descriptors have been proposed in many image classification applications... more In recent years, several descriptors have been proposed in many image classification applications. Accelerated-KAZE (A-KAZE) is considered one of the descriptors that has shown high performance for feature extraction. A-KAZE uses a binary descriptor called modified-local difference binary, which is very efficient and invariant to changes in rotation and scale. This representation does not allow spatial information to be considered between objects in the image, which makes it possible to reduce the performances of the classification of the images. This article broaches a new approach to improve the performance of the A-KAZE descriptor for image classification. The authors first establish the connection between the A-KAZE descriptor and the bag of feature model. Then the Spatial Pyramid Matching (SPM) is adopted by exploiting the A-KAZE descriptor to reinforce its robustness by introducing spatial information. The results of the experiments on several datasets show that the A-KAZE des...
Hierarchical Spatial Pyramidal Feature Representation Learning for Facial Expression Recognition
International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence
As the recognition of facial expressions has attracted increasing attention due to its important ... more As the recognition of facial expressions has attracted increasing attention due to its important applications in several fields (security, human-machine interaction, marketing, etc.), thanks to the detection of different possible expressions (happiness, sadness, etc.), this technology is gaining more attention. This article presents a method for the recognition of facial expressions by exploiting spatial information. In this method, the LBP descriptor is proposed to extract local characteristics, and a hierarchical spatial pyramid model is used to capture spatial information in an image. This method enriches the semantic description of visual information, which improves the recognition rate of facial expressions. The experimental analysis was carried out on the CK+ facial expression dataset, which includes seven categories of expressions—“happy,” “sad,” “surprise,” “contempt,” “fear,” “disgust,” “anger”—and it has been given state-of-the-art performance. The recognition results of t...
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2020
In real-life applications, the appearance of a face changes significantly due to variations in ex... more In real-life applications, the appearance of a face changes significantly due to variations in expression, lighting, aging, exposure, and occlusion, which makes face recognition difficult. We present in this article a new approach for facial recognition. This approach is based on a set of variants of the Ho-LBP descriptor that we have proposed. In fact, the presentation of the images using a set of variants of the Ho-LBP descriptor helps the classifier to learn better. In addition, these variants are combined to improve the performance of facial recognition. We evaluated the effectiveness of our approach on ORL, Extended Yale B, and Feret databases. The obtained results are very promising, especially when compared with those of existing approaches. They show that our approach improves the accuracy of facial recognition in a very efficient way and in particular to the variations of the poses and the changes of the luminance.
International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence, 2020
In recent years, several descriptors have been proposed in many image classification applications... more In recent years, several descriptors have been proposed in many image classification applications. Accelerated-KAZE (A-KAZE) is considered one of the descriptors that has shown high performance for feature extraction. A-KAZE uses a binary descriptor called modified-local difference binary, which is very efficient and invariant to changes in rotation and scale. This representation does not allow spatial information to be considered between objects in the image, which makes it possible to reduce the performances of the classification of the images. This article broaches a new approach to improve the performance of the A-KAZE descriptor for image classification. The authors first establish the connection between the A-KAZE descriptor and the bag of feature model. Then the Spatial Pyramid Matching (SPM) is adopted by exploiting the A-KAZE descriptor to reinforce its robustness by introducing spatial information. The results of the experiments on several datasets show that the A-KAZE des...
Hierarchical Spatial Pyramidal Feature Representation Learning for Facial Expression Recognition
International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence
As the recognition of facial expressions has attracted increasing attention due to its important ... more As the recognition of facial expressions has attracted increasing attention due to its important applications in several fields (security, human-machine interaction, marketing, etc.), thanks to the detection of different possible expressions (happiness, sadness, etc.), this technology is gaining more attention. This article presents a method for the recognition of facial expressions by exploiting spatial information. In this method, the LBP descriptor is proposed to extract local characteristics, and a hierarchical spatial pyramid model is used to capture spatial information in an image. This method enriches the semantic description of visual information, which improves the recognition rate of facial expressions. The experimental analysis was carried out on the CK+ facial expression dataset, which includes seven categories of expressions—“happy,” “sad,” “surprise,” “contempt,” “fear,” “disgust,” “anger”—and it has been given state-of-the-art performance. The recognition results of t...
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2020
In real-life applications, the appearance of a face changes significantly due to variations in ex... more In real-life applications, the appearance of a face changes significantly due to variations in expression, lighting, aging, exposure, and occlusion, which makes face recognition difficult. We present in this article a new approach for facial recognition. This approach is based on a set of variants of the Ho-LBP descriptor that we have proposed. In fact, the presentation of the images using a set of variants of the Ho-LBP descriptor helps the classifier to learn better. In addition, these variants are combined to improve the performance of facial recognition. We evaluated the effectiveness of our approach on ORL, Extended Yale B, and Feret databases. The obtained results are very promising, especially when compared with those of existing approaches. They show that our approach improves the accuracy of facial recognition in a very efficient way and in particular to the variations of the poses and the changes of the luminance.
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