人脸识别论文：Eigenfeature regularization and extraction in face reconition.pdfVIP

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, VOL. 30, NO. 3, MARCH 2008 383 Eigenfeature Regularization and Extraction in Face Recognition Xudong Jiang, Senior Member, IEEE, Bappaditya Mandal, and Alex Kot, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—This work proposes a subspace approach that regularizes and extracts eigenfeatures from the face image. Eigenspace of the within-class scatter matrix is decomposed into three subspaces: a reliable subspace spanned mainly by the facial variation, an unstable subspace due to noise and finite number of training samples, and a null subspace. Eigenfeatures are regularized differently in these three subspaces based on an eigenspectrum model to alleviate problems of instability, overfitting, or poor generalization. This also enables the discriminant evaluation performed in the whole space. Feature extraction or dimensionality reduction occurs only at the final stage after the discriminant assessment. These efforts facilitate a discriminative and a stable low-dimensional feature representation of the face image. Experiments comparing the proposed approach with some other popular subspace methods on the FERET, ORL, AR, and GT databases show that our method consistently outperforms others. Index Terms—Face recognition, linear discriminant analysis, regularization, feature extraction, subspace methods. Ç 1 INTRODUCTION ACE recognition has attracted many researchers in the area is contributed by both the within and between-class varia- Fof pattern recognition, machine learning, and computer tions. To differentiate face images of one person from those of vision because of its immense application potential. Numer-