Face recognition based on singular-value feature vectors

Quan Pan, Min Gui Zhang, De Long Zhou, Yong Mei Cheng, Hong Cai Zhang

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Abstract

Automatic human face recognition is a difficult but significant problem. A method for face recognition based on singular-value feature vectors is discussed. Three algorithms of face recognition based on singular-value feature vectors are proposed. These algorithms are face recognition using principal component analysis based on singular-value feature vectors, face recognition by Fisher linear discriminant analysis based on singular-value feature vectors, and face recognition using the discriminant Karhunen Loeve (DKL) transform based on singular-value feature vectors. Experimental results show that face recognition based on singular-value feature vectors is effective.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2368-2374
Number of pages7
JournalOptical Engineering
Volume42
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2003

Keywords

  • Algebraic feature extraction
  • Dimensionality reduction
  • Discriminant vector
  • Face recognition
  • Facial image recognition
  • Singular-value feature vectors

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