Face Identification System by merging Reflectance and Illumination features

Among the numerous biometric systems existing in the literature, face identification systems have received a considerable interest in latest years. This paper presents a novel approach to face-feature extraction based on the Adaptive Single scale Retinex algorithm (ASSR) and the Gabor filter-bank. The ASSR has been used to extract the illumination (I-image) and the reflectance images (R-image) fro...