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This paper presents a method for the normalization of human facial images in arbitrary illumination conditions. The enhanced image is suitable to be used as an input to a face recognition system.
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Cinque, L., Morrone, G. (2009). Retinex Combined with Total Variation for Image Illumination Normalization. In: Foggia, P., Sansone, C., Vento, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2009. ICIAP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04146-4_102
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