A fractal based approach for face recognition

The use of fractal technique known as iterated function systems (IFS) is mostly restricted to image compression till date. In this paper, we propose an automated face recognition system that operates in the fractal domain. This leads to an advantage towards handling large database of face images, which are compactly stored in terms of fractal codes. It is shown that candidate images of face recognition system could be recognized, efficiently, using interdependence of pixels arising from fractal codes (IFS) of images. The interdependence of the pixels is inherent within the fractal code in the form of chain of pixels. The preliminary results obtained by this method seem encouraging.