Face Recognition with Triangular Fuzzy Set-Based Local Cross Patterns in Wavelet Domain

Abstract

In this study, a new face recognition architecture is proposed using fuzzy-based Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and fuzzy with two novel local graph descriptors. These graph descriptors are called Local Cross Pattern (LCP). The proposed fuzzy wavelet-based face recognition architecture consists of DWT, Triangular fuzzy set transformation, and textural feature extraction with local descriptors and classification phases. Firstly, the LL (Low-Low) sub-band is obtained by applying the 2 Dimensions Discrete Wavelet Transform (2D DWT) to face images. After that, the triangular fuzzy transformation is applied to this band in order to obtain A, B, and C images. The proposed LCP is then applied to the B image. LCP consists of two types of descriptors: Vertical Local Cross Pattern (VLCP) and Horizontal Local Cross Pattern (HLCP). Linear discriminant analysis, quadratic discriminant, analysis, quadratic kernel-based support vector machine (QKSVM), and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) were ultimately used to classify the extracted features. Ten widely used descriptors in the literature are applied to the fuzzy wavelet architecture. AT&T, CIE, Face94, and FERET databases are used for performance evaluation of the proposed methods. Experimental results show that the LCP descriptors have high face recognition performance, and the fuzzy wavelet-based model significantly improves the performances of the textural descriptors-based face recognition methods. Moreover, the proposed fuzzy-based domain and LCP method achieved classification accuracy rates of 97.3%, 100.0%, 100.0%, and 96.3% for AT&T, CIE, Face94, and FERET datasets, respectively.