The problem of face identication in the Mid-Wave InfraRed (MWIR) spectrum is studied in order to understand
the performance of intra-spectral (MWIR to MWIR) and cross-spectral (visible to MWIR) matching. The
contributions of this work are two-fold. First, a database of 50 subjects is assembled and used to illustrate
the challenges associated with the problem. Second, a set of experiments is performed in order to demonstrate
the possibility of MWIR intra-spectral and cross-spectral matching. Experiments show that images captured in
the MWIR band can be eciently matched to MWIR images using existing techniques (originally not designed
to address such a problem). These results are comparable to the baseline results, i.e., when comparing visible
to visible face images. Experiments also show that cross-spectral matching (the heterogeneous problem, where
gallery and probe sets have face images acquired in dierent spectral bands) is a very challenging problem. In
order to perform cross-spectral matching, we use multiple texture descriptors and demonstrate that fusing these
descriptors improves recognition performance. Experiments on a small database, suggests that the problem of
cross-spectral matching requires further investigation.
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