Face Recognition using Discrete Cosine Transform plus Linear Discriminant Analysis.

Face recognition is a biometric identification method which among the other methods such as, finger print identification, speech recognition, signature and hand written recognition has assigned a special place to itself. In principle, the biometric identification methods include a wide range of sciences such as machine vision, image processing, pattern recognition neural networks and has various applications in film processing, control access networks and etc. There are several methods for recognition and appearance based methods is one of them. One of the most important algorithms in appearance based methods is linear discriminant analysis (LDA) method. One of the drawbacks for LDA in face recognition is the small sample size (SSS) problem so it is suggested to first reduce the dimension of the space using methods among which, principal component analysis (PCA) is the most popular one. In this paper we show that there exist stronger methods such as discrete cosine transform (DCT). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]