Parallel image matrix compression for face recognition

Dong Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Weiying Ma, Zhengkai Liu, Hongjiang Zhang

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

The canonical face recognition algorithm Eigenface and Fisherface are both based on one dimensional vector representation. However, with the high feature dimensions and the small training data, face recognition often suffers from the curse of dimension and the small sample problem. Recent research [4] shows that face recognition based on direct 2D matrix representation, i.e. 2DPCA, obtains better performance than that based on traditional vector representation. However, there are three questions left unresolved in the 2DPCA algorithm: I ) what is the meaning of the eigenvalue and eigenvector of the covariance matrix in 2DPCA; 2) why 2DPCA can outperform Eigenface; and 3) how to reduce the dimension after 2DPCA directly. In this paper, we analyze 2DPCA in a different view and proof that is 2DPCA actually a "localized" PCA with each row vector of an image as object. With this explanation, we discover the intrinsic reason that 2DPCA can outperform Eigenface is because fewer feature dimensions and more samples are used in 2DPCA when compared with Eigenface. To further reduce the dimension after 2DPCA, a two-stage strategy, namely parallel image matrix compression (PIMC), is proposed to compress the image matrix redundancy, which exists among row vectors and column vectors. The exhaustive experiment results demonstrate that PIMC is superior to 2DPCA and Eigenface, and PIMC+LDA outperforms 2DPC+LDA and Fisherface. © 2005 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 11th International Multimedia Modelling Conference, MMM 2005
Pages232-238
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Multimedia Modelling Conference, MMM 2005 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Duration: 12 Jan 200514 Jan 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 11th International Multimedia Modelling Conference, MMM 2005

Conference

Conference11th International Multimedia Modelling Conference, MMM 2005
PlaceAustralia
CityMelbourne, VIC
Period12/01/0514/01/05

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