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Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science

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suppressed and a detail subband (in some cases) is eliminated. Reconstructing<br />

a face with an optimal selection <strong>of</strong> subbands enhances the performance <strong>of</strong> face<br />

recognition. We present four different criteria as cost functions to obtain an<br />

optimal subband face for each subject, and compare their performances. The<br />

performance <strong>of</strong> the subband face representation with several linear subspace<br />

techniques: PCA, LDA, 2D-PCA, 2D-LDA and Discriminative Common Vec-<br />

tors (DCV), on Yale, ORL and PIE face databases show that the subband<br />

face based representation performs significantly better than that proposed by<br />

Ekenel for Multiresolution Face Recognition [36] for frontal face recognition, in<br />

the presence <strong>of</strong> varying illumination, expression and pose.<br />

• In the second approach, we propose a new face recognition technique by com-<br />

bining information from null space and range space <strong>of</strong> within-class scatter <strong>of</strong><br />

a face space. The combination <strong>of</strong> information at feature level poses a problem<br />

<strong>of</strong> optimally merging two eigenmodels obtained separately from null space and<br />

range space. We use two different methods: 1) Covariance Sum and 2) Gramm-<br />

Schmidt Orthonormalization to construct a new combined space, named as<br />

dual space, by merging two different sets <strong>of</strong> discriminatory directions obtained<br />

from null space and range space separately. We employ forward or backward<br />

selection technique to select the best set <strong>of</strong> discriminative features from dual<br />

space and use them for face recognition. Experimental results on three public<br />

databases, Yale, ORL and PIE will show the superiority <strong>of</strong> our method over a<br />

face recognition technique called Discriminative Common Vectors (DCV) [20],<br />

based on only the null space <strong>of</strong> within-class scatter.<br />

• The third approach <strong>of</strong> face recognition presents a novel face recognition tech-<br />

nique by combining information from null space and range space <strong>of</strong> within-class<br />

scatter <strong>of</strong> a face space at decision level. Along with two classical decision fu-<br />

sion strategies sum rule and product rule, we employ our own decision fusion<br />

technique which exploits each classifier space separately to enhance combined<br />

performance. Our method <strong>of</strong> decision fusion uses Linear Discriminant Anal-<br />

ysis (LDA) and nonparametric LDA on classifier’s response to enhance class<br />

separability. This method is also evaluated using Yale, ORL and PIE database.<br />

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