Chiachia, Giovani [UNESP]Marana, Aparecido Nilceu [UNESP]Ruf, TobiasErnst, Andreas2014-05-202014-05-202011-12-01International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Singapore: World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd, v. 25, n. 8, p. 1337-1348, 2011.0218-0014http://hdl.handle.net/11449/8301Most face recognition approaches require a prior training where a given distribution of faces is assumed to further predict the identity of test faces. Such an approach may experience difficulty in identifying faces belonging to distributions different from the one provided during the training. A face recognition technique that performs well regardless of training is, therefore, interesting to consider as a basis of more sophisticated methods. In this work, the Census Transform is applied to describe the faces. Based on a scanning window which extracts local histograms of Census Features, we present a method that directly matches face samples. With this simple technique, 97.2% of the faces in the FERET fa/fb test were correctly recognized. Despite being an easy test set, we have found no other approaches in literature regarding straight comparisons of faces with such a performance. Also, a window for further improvement is presented. Among other techniques, we demonstrate how the use of SVMs over the Census Histogram representation can increase the recognition performance.1337-1348engFace recognitioncensus transformlocal binary patternshistogram matchingfeature extractionArtigo10.1142/S0218001411009068WOS:000298813200010Acesso restrito6027713750942689