FACE IDENTIFICATION USING BACK-PROPAGATION ADAPTIVE MULTIWAVENET

Face Identification is an important research topic in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition and has become a very active research area in recent decades. Recently multiwavelet-based neural networks (multiwavenets) have been used for function approximation and recognition, but to our...

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Main Authors: Waleed Ameen Mahmoud, Ali Ibrahim Abbas, Nuha Abdul Sahib Alwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Baghdad 2023-07-01
Series:Journal of Engineering
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Online Access:https://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/1829
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Summary:Face Identification is an important research topic in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition and has become a very active research area in recent decades. Recently multiwavelet-based neural networks (multiwavenets) have been used for function approximation and recognition, but to our best knowledge it has not been used for face Identification. This paper presents a novel approach for the Identification of human faces using Back-Propagation Adaptive Multiwavenet. The proposed multiwavenet has a structure similar to a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network with three layers, but the activation function of hidden layer is replaced with multiscaling functions. In experiments performed on the ORL face database it achieved a recognition rate of 97.75% in the presence of facial expression, lighting and pose variations. Results are compared with its wavelet-based counterpart where it obtained a recognition rate of 10.4%. The proposed multiwavenet demonstrated very good recognition rate in the presence of variations in facial expression, lighting and pose and outperformed its wavelet-based counterpart.
ISSN:1726-4073
2520-3339