Local Curvelet Based Classification Using Linear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition

In this paper, an efficient local appearance feature extraction method based the multi-resolution Curvelet transform is proposed in order to further enhance the performance of the well known Linear Discriminant Analysis(LDA) method when applied to face recognition. Each face is described by a subset of band filtered images containing block-based Curvelet coefficients. These coefficients characterize the face texture and a set of simple statistical measures allows us to form compact and meaningful feature vectors. The proposed method is compared with some related feature extraction methods such as Principal component analysis (PCA), as well as Linear Discriminant Analysis LDA, and independent component Analysis (ICA). Two different muti-resolution transforms, Wavelet (DWT) and Contourlet, were also compared against the Block Based Curvelet-LDA algorithm. Experimental results on ORL, YALE and FERET face databases convince us that the proposed method provides a better representation of the class information and obtains much higher recognition accuracies.

Authors:

• Mohammed Rziza
• Mohamed El Aroussi
• Mohammed El Hassouni
• Sanaa Ghouzali
• Driss Aboutajdine

Keywords:

• Curvelet
• Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA)
• Contourlet
• Discreet Wavelet Transform
• DWT
• Block-based analysis
• face recognition (FR).

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