A Novel Face Recognition Method Robust to Illumination Changes

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We present an efficient face recognition method that is robust to illumination changes. We named the proposed method as SKKUfaces. We first compute eigenfaces from training images and then apply fisher discriminant analysis using the obtained eigenfaces that exclude eigenfaces correponding to first few largest eigenvalues. This way, SKKUfaces can achieve the maximum class separability without considering eigenfaces that are responsible for illumination changes, facial expressions and eyewear. In addition, we have developed a method that efficiently computes beween-scatter and within-scatter matrices in terms of memory space and computation time. We have tested the performance of SKKUfaces on the YALE and the SKKU face databases. Initial Experimental results show that SKKUfaces performs greatly better over Fisherfaces on the input images of large variations in lighting and eyewear.