Median Fisher Discriminator: a robust feature extraction method with applications to biometrics

J Yang, J Yang, D Zhang - Frontiers of Computer Science in China, 2008 - Springer
Abstract In existing Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) models, the class population mean is
always estimated by the class sample average. In small sample size problems, such as face …

An uncorrelated fisherface approach for face and palmprint recognition

XY Jing, C Lu, D Zhang - … International Conference, ICB 2006, Hong Kong …, 2005 - Springer
The Fisherface method is a most representative method of the linear discrimination analysis
(LDA) technique. However, there persist in the Fisherface method at least two areas of …

Median LDA: a robust feature extraction method for face recognition

J Yang, D Zhang, J Yang - 2006 IEEE International Conference …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the existing LDA models, class mean vector is always estimated by the class sample
average. In small sample size problems such as face recognition, however, the class sample …

Unified formulation of linear discriminant analysis methods and optimal parameter selection

S An, W Liu, S Venkatesh, H Yan - Pattern recognition, 2011 - Elsevier
In the last decade, many variants of classical linear discriminant analysis (LDA) have been
developed to tackle the under-sampled problem in face recognition. However, choosing the …

Improved linear discriminant analysis method

ZB Liu, ST YU - Journal of Computer Applications, 2011 - joca.cn
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is an effective feature extraction method, but there exist
at least two critical drawbacks in it: small sample size problem and rank limitation. In order to …

Optimal subset-division based discrimination and its kernelization for face and palmprint recognition

X Jing, S Li, D Zhang, C Lan, J Yang - Pattern Recognition, 2012 - Elsevier
Discriminant analysis is effective in extracting discriminative features and reducing
dimensionality. In this paper, we propose an optimal subset-division based discrimination …

Two-dimensional local graph embedding discriminant analysis (2DLGEDA) with its application to face and palm biometrics

M Wan, Z Lai, J Shao, Z Jin - Neurocomputing, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel method, called two-dimensional local graph embedding
discriminant analysis (2DLGEDA), for image feature extraction, which can directly extract the …

Post-processed LDA for face and palmprint recognition: What is the rationale

W Zuo, H Zhang, D Zhang, K Wang - Signal Processing, 2010 - Elsevier
Linear discriminant analysis (LDA)-based methods have been very successful in face and
palmprint recognition. Recently, a class of post-processing approaches has been proposed …

Perturbation LDA: Learning the difference between the class empirical mean and its expectation

WS Zheng, JH Lai, PC Yuen, SZ Li - Pattern Recognition, 2009 - Elsevier
Fisher's linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is popular for dimension reduction and extraction
of discriminant features in many pattern recognition applications, especially biometric …

Local median based linear regression classification for biometric recognition

Z Yang, W Wang, P Huang, G Gao, X Wu… - Computers & Electrical …, 2021 - Elsevier
As an efficacy classification technique, linear regression based classification (LRC) has
been popularly used for image recognition. However, since LRC neglects the local structure …