A Comparative Study of Human Thermal Face Recognition Based on Haar Wavelet Transform and Local Binary Pattern

Table 5

Recognition performance (on own database and benchmark database) with minimum distance classifier and the value of 𝛼 and 𝛽.

Value of 𝛼 and 𝛽	Recognition rate (%)
	Own database	Terravic Facial
		Thermal Database
𝛼=1.0 and 𝛽=0.0	89.22	94.11
𝛼=0.9 and 𝛽=0.1	86.27	86.27
𝛼=0.8 and 𝛽=0.2	86.27	83.33
𝛼=0.7 and 𝛽=0.3	83.33	86.27
𝛼=0.6 and 𝛽=0.4	86.27	83.33
𝛼=0.5 and 𝛽=0.5	80.39	80.39
𝛼=0.4 and 𝛽=0.6	80.39	78.57
𝛼=0.3 and 𝛽=0.7	80.39	86.27
𝛼=0.2 and 𝛽=0.8	83.33	86.27
𝛼=0.1 and 𝛽=0.9	83.33	86.27
𝛼=0.0 and 𝛽=1.0	86.27	80.39