Fusion of Visual and Thermal Face Recognition Techniques: A ...

lights are used to provide illumination change. The software GUI shown in Figure 3 (c)
has been implemented to capture visual and thermal images at the same time. Figure 4
shows an example of visual and thermal images taken at the same time using rotary
system.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 3: Image acquisition platform. (a) Rotary system, (b) visual and thermal cameras
with two lights, and (c) software to capture images at the same time
Figure 4: Example of visual and thermal images taken at the same time
Table 2 shows an overview of the IRIS face database. 32 IRIS lab members have
participated in this experiment using 5 different illumination conditions and 3 different
expressions while utilizing the rotary system. People who wear eyeglasses had pictures
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