TY - JOUR

T1 - Face photo retrieval based on sketches

AU - Kukharev, Georgy A.

AU - Shchegoleva, Nadegda L.

PY - 2016/9/1

Y1 - 2016/9/1

N2 - The paper deals with the problem of the automatic retrieval of face photos using sketch drawings based on the witness description. We propose new methods for the generation of a sketch population from the initial one to improve the performance of sketch-based photo image retrieval systems. The method based on the computation of an average sketch from the generated population has been applied to increase the index of similarity in sketch-photo pairs. It is shown that such sketches are more similar to the original photographic images and their use leads to good results. Results of the experiments on CUHK Face Sketch and CUHK Face Sketch FERET databases and open access databases of photo-sketches pairs are discussed.

AB - The paper deals with the problem of the automatic retrieval of face photos using sketch drawings based on the witness description. We propose new methods for the generation of a sketch population from the initial one to improve the performance of sketch-based photo image retrieval systems. The method based on the computation of an average sketch from the generated population has been applied to increase the index of similarity in sketch-photo pairs. It is shown that such sketches are more similar to the original photographic images and their use leads to good results. Results of the experiments on CUHK Face Sketch and CUHK Face Sketch FERET databases and open access databases of photo-sketches pairs are discussed.

KW - Photo-sketch retrieval

KW - Population of sketches

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85001075211&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.18287/2412-6179-2016-40-5-729-739

DO - 10.18287/2412-6179-2016-40-5-729-739

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85001075211

VL - 40

SP - 729

EP - 739

JO - Computer Optics

JF - Computer Optics

SN - 0134-2452

IS - 5

ER -