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A Resampling Method for Small Sample Size Problems in Face Recognition using LDA  

Oh, Jae-Hyun (Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University)
Kwak, Jo-Jun (Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.46, no.2, 2009 , pp. 78-88 More about this Journal
Abstract
In many face recognition problems, the number of available images is limited compared to the dimension of the input space which is usually equal to the number of pixels. This problem is called as the 'small sample size' problem and regularization methods are typically used to solve this problem in feature extraction methods such as LDA. By using regularization methods, the modified within class matrix becomes nonsingu1ar and LDA can be performed in its original form. However, in the process of adding a scaled version of the identity matrix to the original within scatter matrix, the scale factor should be set heuristically and the performance of the recognition system depends on highly the value of the scalar factor. By using the proposed resampling method, we can generate a set of images similar to but slightly different from the original image. With the increased number of images, the small sample size problem is alleviated and the classification performance increases. Unlike regularization method, the resampling method does not suffer from the heuristic setting of the parameter producing better performance.
Keywords
LDA; small sample size problem; regularization method; resampling;
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