Glasses Removal from Facial Images with Recursive PCA Reconstruction

This paper proposes a new glasses removal method from color frontal facial image to generate gray glassless facial image. The proposed method is based on recursive PCA reconstruction. For the generation of glassless images, the occluded region by glasses should be found, and a good reconstructed image to compensate with should be obtained. The recursive PCA reconstruction provides us with both of them simultaneously, and finally produces glassless facial images. This paper shows the effectiveness of the proposed method by some experimental results.