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Face Recognition using Eigenfaces. Haripriya Ganta and Pinky Tejwani. ECE 847 Project Report. Fall 2004, Clemson University. Abstract We have implemented an efficient system to recognize faces from images with some near real-time variations. Our approach essentially was to implement and verify the algorithm Eigenfaces for Recognition [1], which solves the recognition problem for 2-D image of faces, using the principal component analysis.The face images are projected onto a face space(feature space) which best defines the variation the known test images. The face space is defined by the ‘eigenfaces’ which are the eigenvectors of the set of faces.These eigenfaces do not necessarily correspond to the distinct features perceived like ears, eyes and noses.The projections of the new image in this feature space is then compared to the available projections of training set to identify the person.Further, the algorithm is extended to recognize the identity and gender of a person with different orientations and certain variations like scaling. Introduction Face recognition can be applied for a wide variety of problems like image and film processing, human-computer interaction, criminal identification etc.This has motivated researchers to develop computational models to identify the faces, which are relatively simple and easy to implement. The model developed in [1] is simple, fast and accurate in constrained environments.Our goal is to implement the model for a particular face and distinguish it from a large number of stored faces with some real-time variations as well. The scheme is based on an information theory approach that decomposes face images into a small set of characteristic feature images called ‘eigenfaces’, which are actually the principal components of the initial training set of face images. Recognition is performed by projecting a new image into the subspace spanned by the eigenfaces(‘face space’) and then classifying the face by comparing its position in