Examplers based image fusion features for face recognition

Examplers of a face are formed from multiple gallery images of a person and are used in the process of classification of a test image. We incorporate such examplers in forming a biologically inspired local binary decisions on similarity based face recognition method. As opposed to single model approaches such as face averages the exampler based approach results in higher recognition accu- racies and stability. Using multiple training samples per person, the method shows the following recognition accuracies: 99.0% on AR, 99.5% on FERET, 99.5% on ORL, 99.3% on EYALE, 100.0% on YALE and 100.0% on CALTECH face databases. In addition to face recognition, the method also detects the natural variability in the face images which can find application in automatic tagging of face images.

Feature selection using nearest attributes

Feature selection is an important problem in high-dimensional data analysis and classification. Conventional feature selection approaches focus on detecting the features based on a redundancy criterion using learning and feature searching schemes. In contrast, we present an approach that identifies the need to select features based on their discriminatory ability among classes. Area of overlap between inter-class and intra-class distances resulting from feature to feature comparison of an attribute is used as a measure of discriminatory ability of the feature. A set of nearest attributes in a pattern having the lowest area of overlap within a degree of tolerance defined by a selection threshold is selected to represent the best available discriminable features. State of the art recognition results are reported for pattern classification problems by using the proposed feature selection scheme with the nearest neighbour classifier. These results are reported with benchmark databases having high dimensional feature vectors in the problems involving images and micro array data.

Cognitive Memory Network

A resistive memory network that has no crossover wiring is proposed to overcome the hardware limitations to size and functional complexity that is associated with conventional analogue neural networks. The proposed memory network is based on simple network cells that are arranged in a hierarchical modular architecture. Cognitive functionality of this network is demonstrated by an example of character recognition. The network is trained by an evolutionary process to completely recognise characters deformed by random noise, rotation, scaling and shifting