Research Article

Partially Occluded Facial Image Retrieval Based on a Similarity Measurement

Table 2

Performance comparison of the proposed method for partially occluded facial image retrieval in the case of occlusion by sunglasses.

AlgorithmImage format used in SIFT matchingNumber of subregionsRetrieval rate

Gabor-LBP [26] Without SQI6 × 675.56%
10 × 1075.56%
With SQI6 × 675.56%
10 × 1075.56%

SIFT total weight [35] Without SQI6 × 668.89%
10 × 1045.93%
With SQI6 × 677.04%
10 × 1071.11%

SIFT probe weight [36] Without SQI6 × 659.26%
10 × 1045.93%
With SQI6 × 664.44%
10 × 1053.33%

Proposed methodWithout SQI6 × 677.78%
10 × 1092.60%
With SQI6 × 694.07%
10 × 1092.59%