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Handbook of Face Recognition

  • Fully updated, revised and expanded, covering the entire spectrum of concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated face detection and recognition systems
  • Provides comprehensive coverage of face detection, tracking, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition technologies, and issues in evaluation, systems, security, and applications
  • Describes a broad range of applications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
  2. Introduction

    • Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain
    Pages 1-15
  3. Face Image Modeling and Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Face Recognition in Subspaces

      • Gregory Shakhnarovich, Baback Moghaddam
      Pages 19-49
    3. Face Subspace Learning

      • Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao
      Pages 51-77
    4. Local Representation of Facial Features

      • Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Abdenour Hadid, Matti Pietikäinen
      Pages 79-108
    5. Face Alignment Models

      • Phil Tresadern, Tim Cootes, Chris Taylor, Vladimir Petrović
      Pages 109-135
    6. Morphable Models of Faces

      • Reinhard Knothe, Brian Amberg, Sami Romdhani, Volker Blanz, Thomas Vetter
      Pages 137-168
    7. Illumination Modeling for Face Recognition

      • Ronen Basri, David Jacobs
      Pages 169-195
    8. Face Recognition Across Pose and Illumination

      • Ralph Gross, Simon Baker, Iain Matthews, Takeo Kanade
      Pages 197-221
    9. Skin Color in Face Analysis

      • J. Birgitta Martinkauppi, Abdenour Hadid, Matti Pietikäinen
      Pages 223-249
    10. Face Aging Modeling

      • Unsang Park, Anil K. Jain
      Pages 251-274
  4. Face Recognition Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
    2. Face Detection

      • Stan Z. Li, Jianxin Wu
      Pages 277-303
    3. Facial Landmark Localization

      • Xiaoqing Ding, Liting Wang
      Pages 305-322
    4. Face Tracking and Recognition in Video

      • Rama Chellappa, Ming Du, Pavan Turaga, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
      Pages 323-351
    5. Face Recognition at a Distance

      • Frederick W. Wheeler, Xiaoming Liu, Peter H. Tu
      Pages 353-381
    6. Face Recognition Using Near Infrared Images

      • Stan Z. Li, Dong Yi
      Pages 383-400
    7. Multispectral Face Imaging and Analysis

      • Andreas Koschan, Yi Yao, Hong Chang, Mongi Abidi
      Pages 401-428
    8. Face Recognition Using 3D Images

      • I. A. Kakadiaris, G. Passalis, G. Toderici, E. Efraty, P. Perakis, D. Chu et al.
      Pages 429-459

About this book

This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational face recognition systems. After a thorough introductory chapter, each of the following chapters focus on a specific topic, reviewing background information, up-to-date techniques, and recent results, as well as offering challenges and future directions. Features: fully updated, revised and expanded, covering the entire spectrum of concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated face detection and recognition systems; provides comprehensive coverage of face detection, tracking, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition technologies, and issues in evaluation, systems, security, and applications; contains numerous step-by-step algorithms; describes a broad range of applications; presents contributions from an international selection of experts; integrates numerous supporting graphs, tables, charts, and performance data.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Automation, Center Biometrics Research & Security, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing Donglu, China, People's Republic

    Stan Z. Li

  • Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Anil K. Jain

About the editors

Dr. Stan Z. Li is Professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Director of the Center for Biometrics and Security Research, and Director of the R&D Center for Visual Internet of Things, within the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Anil K. Jain is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, U.S.A.

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