Tensor-based face representation and recognition using multi-linear subspace analysis

Discriminative subspace analysis is a popular approach for a variety of applications. There is a growing interest in subspace learning techniques for face recognition. Principal component analysis (PCA) and eigenfaces are two important subspace analysis methods have been widely applied in a variety of areas. However, the excessive dimension of data space often causes the curse of dimensionality dilemma, expensive computational cost, and sometimes the singularity problem. In this paper, a new supervised discriminative subspace analysis is presented by encoding face image as a high order general tensor. As face space can be considered as a nonlinear submanifold embedded in the tensor space, a decomposition method called Tucker tensor is used which can effectively decomposes this sparse space. The performance of the proposed method is compared with that of eigenface, Fisherface, tensor LPP, and ORO_4×2 on ORL and Weizermann databases. Conducted experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method.