A KERNEL MAXIMUM UNCERTAINTY DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO FACE RECOGNITION

Carlos Eduardo Thomaz, Gilson Antonio Giraldi

2009

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the Maximum uncertainty Linear Discriminant Analysis (MLDA), proposed recently for limited sample size problems, to its kernel version. The new Kernel Maximum uncertainty Discriminant Analysis (KMDA) is a two-stage method composed of Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) followed by the standard MLDA. In order to evaluate its effectiveness, experiments on face recognition using the well-known ORL and FERET face databases were carried out and compared with other existing kernel discriminant methods, such as Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) and Regularized Kernel Discriminant Analysis (RKDA). The classification results indicate that KMDA performs as well as GDA and RKDA, with the advantage of being a straightforward stabilization approach for the within-class scatter matrix that uses higher-order features for further classification improvements.

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Eduardo Thomaz C. and Antonio Giraldi G. (2009). A KERNEL MAXIMUM UNCERTAINTY DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO FACE RECOGNITION . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 341-346. DOI: 10.5220/0001791003410346

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Carlos Eduardo Thomaz and Gilson Antonio Giraldi},
title={A KERNEL MAXIMUM UNCERTAINTY DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO FACE RECOGNITION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={341-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001791003410346},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A KERNEL MAXIMUM UNCERTAINTY DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO FACE RECOGNITION
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Eduardo Thomaz C.
AU - Antonio Giraldi G.
PY - 2009
SP - 341
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0001791003410346