RESEARCH ON FACE RECOGNITION BASED ON IMED AND 2DPCA

This letter proposes an effective method for recognizing face images by combining two-Dimen- sional Principal Component Analysis (2DPCA) with IMage Euclidean Distance (IMED) method. The proposed method is comprised of four main stages. The first stage uses the wavelet decomposition to extract low fre- quency subimages from original face images and omits the other three subimages. The second stage concerns the application of IMED to face images. In the third stage, 2DPCA is employed to extract the face features from the processed results in the second stage. Finally, Support Vector Machine (SVM) is applied to classify the extracted face features. Experimental results on the AR face image database show that the proposed method yields better recognition performance in comparison with the 2DPCA method that is not combined with IMED.