Elliptical local binary patterns for face recognition

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel variant of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) so-called Elliptical Local Binary Patterns (ELBP) for face recognition. In ELBP, we use horizontal and vertical ellipse patterns to capture micro facial feature of face images in both horizontal and vertical directions. ELBP is applied in face recognition with dimension reduction step by Whitened Principal Component Analysis (WPCA). Our experiment results upon AR, FERET and Surveillance Cameras Face (SCface) databases prove the advantages of ELBP over LBP for face recognition under different conditions and with ELBP WPCA we can get very remarkable results. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.