Face Recognition Using KPCA and KFDA

Abstract

KPCA extracting principal component with nonlinear method is an improved PCA. The KPCA can extract the feature set which is more suitable in categorization than the conventional PCA. The method of KFDA is equivalent to KPCA plus LDA. KPCA is first performed and then LDA is used for a second feature extraction in the KPCA-transformed space. The KPCA and KFDA have been got widely used in feature extraction and face recognition. In this paper, the method of KPCA and KFDA is analyzed and their nature is revealed. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm is verified using the ORL database.