Active Vision by Parallel Distributed Processing: Face Recognition

Tsumura Norimichi, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Yoshiki Ichioka

Osaka University

Japanese Journal of Optics 23(1994) 750-757

Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new parallel distributed model for an active vision system. This model is assumed to have active functions of eye-movement and zooming. The present model has a relational module and four functional modules, the pattern-matching, face-identification, pattern-discrimination and camera-control modules. The relational module interconnects the functional modules, and infers the eye-movement in cooperation with the functional modules. The present model is constructed for the application to face recognition. In the experiment, the faces of 61 persons are recognized by the selective eye-movements of the proposed model.


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