Two-dimensional locality adaptive discriminant analysis

Two-dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis (2DLDA), which is supervised and extracts the most discriminating features, has been widely used in face image representation and recognition. However, 2DLDA is inapplicable to many real-world situations because it assumes that the input data obeys the Gaussian distribution and emphasizes the global relationship of data merely. To handle this problem, we present a Two-dimensional Locality Adaptive Discriminant Analysis (2DLADA). Compared to 2DLDA, our method has two salient advantages: (1) it does not depend on any assumptions on the data distribution and is more suitable in real world applications; (2) it adaptively exploits the intrinsic local structure of data manifold. Performance on artificial dataset and real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method.