A Framework of 2D Fisher Discriminant Analysis: Application to Face Recognition with Small Number of Training Samples

  • Authors:
  • Hui Kong;Lei Wang;Eam Khwang Teoh;Jian-Gang Wang;Ronda Venkateswarlu

  • Affiliations:
  • Nanyang Technological University;Nanyang Technological University;Nanyang Technological University;Institute for Infocomm Research;Institute for Infocomm Research

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 2 - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A novel framework called 2D Fisher Discriminant Analysis (2D-FDA) is proposed to deal with the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem in conventional One-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis (1D-LDA). Different from the 1D-LDA based approaches, 2D-FDA is based on 2D image matrices rather than column vectors so the image matrix does not need to be transformed into a long vector before feature extraction. The advantage arising in this way is that the SSS problem does not exist anymore because the between-class and within-class scatter matrices constructed in 2D-FDA are both of full-rank. This framework contains unilateral and bilateral 2D-FDA. It is applied to face recognition where only few training images exist for each subject. Both the unilateral and bilateral 2D-FDA achieve excellent performance on two public databases: ORL database and Yale face database B.