Face Recognition Research Based on Anti-Symmetrical Wavelet and Eigenface

In this paper, a new human face recognition method based on anti-symmetrical biorthogonal wavelet transformation (ASBWT) and eigenface was proposed. First the anti-symmetrical biorthogonal wavelet is chosen to degrade the face image dimension, meanwhile complete the process of face location and segmentation; And then human face is reverted through the face space of eigenface, the traditional average human face is replaced in the within-class scatter matrix. This within-class scatter matrix is used to calculate within-class and between-class distance proportion as a rule function, calculate the twice eigenface through discrete Karhunen-Loeve transform (DKLT), and use singular value decomposition (SVD) method to calculate the eigenvector. Finally we compute the weights and classify the face images. The results show that the proposed method has higher recognition rate and more robust than the traditional eigenface analysis method.