Research Article

Partially Occluded Facial Image Retrieval Based on a Similarity Measurement

Table 3

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

AlgorithmImage format used in SIFT matchingNumber of subregionsRetrieval rate

Gabor-LBP [26]Without SQI6 × 691.85%
10 × 1097.04%
With SQI6 × 691.85%
10 × 1097.94%

SIFT total weight [35]Without SQI6 × 694.07%
10 × 1094.07%
With SQI6 × 692.60%
10 × 1095.56%

SIFT probe weight [36]Without SQI6 × 694.07%
10 × 1094.07%
With SQI6 × 693.33%
10 × 1088.89%

Proposed methodWithout SQI6 × 687.41%
10 × 1091.11%
With SQI6 × 693.33%
10 × 1091.11%