Face recognition based on multi-class SVM

  • Authors:
  • Zhao Lihong;Song Ying;Zhu Yushi;Zhang Cheng;Zheng Yi

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang

  • Venue:
  • CCDC'09 Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Support Vector Machine (SVM) provides high performance in generalization, processing small samples, and tackling high-dimensional data. Based on the advantages of SVM, an approach is proposed in this paper, adopting multi-class SVM to realize face recognition. In the approach, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is used firstly to reduce dimensions so that feature extraction is carried out on face images. Then a method based on One-Versus-All SVM is implemented to realize multi-class classification on feature vectors of the face images. Results of experiments applied to ORL and Yale face databases show that our approach is effective. By the One-Versus-All SVM method, we can respectively obtain recognition rates as high as 93.5% in ORL face database, and 97.3% in Yale face database.