Line segment Hausdorff distance on face matching

A novel concept of line segment Hausdorff distance is proposed in this paper. Researchers apply Hausdorff distance to measure the similarity of two point sets. It is extended here to match two sets of line segments. The new approach has the advantage to incorporate structural and spatial information to compute the similarity. The added information can conceptually provide more and better distinctive capability for recognition. This would strengthen and enhance the matching process of similar objects such as faces. The proposed technique has been applied on line segments generated from the edge maps of faces with encouraging result that supports the concept experimentally. The results also implicate that line segments could provide sufficient information for face recognition. This might imply a new way for face coding and recognition. (C) 2001 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.