Frontal face authentication using variants of dynamic link matching based on mathematical morphology

Two variants of dynamic link matching based on mathematical morphology are developed and tested for frontal face authentication, namely, the morphological dynamic link architecture and the morphological signal decomposition-dynamic link architecture. Local coefficients which weigh the contribution of each node in elastic graph matching according to its discriminatory power are derived. The performance of the proposed algorithms is evaluated in terms of their receiver operating characteristic and the equal error rate (EER) achieved in the M2VTS database. The comparison with other frontal face authentication algorithms developed within M2VTS project indicates that morphological dynamic link architecture with discriminatory power coefficients is ranked as the best algorithm in terms of the EER.