Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a popular feature extraction technique in face recognition. However, it often suffers from the small sample size problem when dealing with the high dimensional data. Moreover, while LDA is guaranteed to find the best directions when each class has a Gaussian density with a common covariance matrix, it can fail if the class densities are more general. In this paper; a new nonparametric linear feature extraction method, stepwise nonparametric margin maximum criterion (SNMMC), is proposed to find the most discriminant directions, which does not assume that the class densities belong to any particular parametric family and does not depend on the non- singularity of the within-class scatter matrix neither. On three datasets from ATT and FERET face databases, our experimental results demonstrate that SNMMC outperforms other methods and is robust to variations of pose, illumination and expression.
Face recognition by stepwise nonparametric margin maximum criterion
Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1 ; 2 ; 1567-1572 Vol. 2
2005-01-01
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