Maximum variance projections for face recognition
Tianhao Zhang · Optical Engineering · 2007
Maximum variance projection (MVP), as a novel subspace learning algorithm, is proposed. It is a linear discriminant algorithm that preserves local information by capturing the local geometry of the manifold. Two abilities of manifold learning and classification are combined into the properties of our algorithm. Since face images often belong to a submanifold of intrinsically low dimension, we carry out the MVP algorithm for face manifold learning and classification. Several experiments show the effectiveness of our developed algorithm.