Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
COMPUTER JOURNAL, cilt.53, sa.8, ss.1324-1337, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
In this study, we investigate the use of a 3D discrete cosine transform (DCT) for 3D face recognition and present a novel 3D DCT-based feature extraction method with the selection of discriminating coefficients. We apply a 3D DCT on the voxel data, and use transform coefficients as features. Then the most discriminating 3D transform coefficients are selected with the proportion of variance, sequential floating forward selection and sequential floating backward selection methods. After feature selection, the linear discriminant analysis is applied on reduced sized feature vectors. We compare the results of different feature selection methods and show that a hybrid feature selection method has the best performance both in terms of time and recognition. Our experimental results verify that the discriminating DCT coefficients increase the face recognition rate more than the low-indexed coefficients do. On the other hand, the discriminating coefficients have only an energy level of 1.58%, too low when compared with the total energy of low-indexed coefficients. This fact shows that the discriminating coefficients are not the most energetic ones. With these coefficients, a recognition rate of 99.25% is achieved and this result is compared with other methods tested on a 3D RMA face database.