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Face recognition using modular locality preserving projections

  • Pengzhang Liu*
  • , Tingzhi Shen
  • , Yu Hu
  • , Sanyuan Zhao
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Facial-image data are always distributed in the high-dimensional space, which makes it difficult to use for accurate face recognition. Recently, many manifold learning methods have been proposed to reduce the dimensionality of the image data. In this paper, a novel method, named Modular Locality Preserving Projection (Modular LPP), is proposed. This proposed method is derived from the LPP methods, and is designed to handle face images with various illuminations and facial expressions. In the proposed method, the face images are divided into smaller sub-images and the LPP approach is applied to each of these sub-images. As some of the local facial features of an individual do not vary even when the lighting directions and facial expressions vary, the proposed method is expected to cope with these variations. The Modular LPP and its variant are compared with LPP, based on the Yale and YaleB face database. Experimental results show the significant improvement of our proposed algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIS 2009 - 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security
Pages320-324
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS 2009 - Beijing, China
Duration: 11 Dec 200914 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameCIS 2009 - 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security
Volume1

Conference

Conference2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period11/12/0914/12/09

Keywords

  • Facial expressions
  • Illuminations
  • Locality preserving projections (LPP)
  • Modular LPP
  • Sub-image

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