Face authentication with sparse grid Gabor information

This paper investigates the application of statistical pattern recognition methods in the framework of the dynamic link matching approach. This method describes objects by means of local frequency information on nodes of a sparse grid. Matching of an input image with a reference is achieved by displacement and deformation of the grid. This method is applied here to the authentication of human faces in a cooperative scenario where candidates claim an identity that is to be checked. The matching error is not powerful enough to provide satisfying results in this case. We introduce an automatic weighting of the nodes according to their significance. Results show that for regular grids, this weighting leads to a significant improvement of the performance.