HMT of the Ranklet Transform for Face Recognition and Verification

This paper introduces the Hidden Markov Tree (HMT) of the ranklet transform as a new face recognition and verification system. The HMT has been used in modeling the face images where the ranklet transform serve as features. The proposed system is evaluated on a large database of people obtaining highly competitive and promising results.

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