Collaborative Discriminant Locality Preserving Projections With its Application to Face Recognition
This work addresses face recognition accuracy for applications like security or biometrics, but it is incremental as it builds on existing Discriminant Locality Preserving Projections.
The authors tackled the problem of improving face recognition by proposing Collaborative Discriminant Locality Preserving Projection (CDLPP), which enhances discriminating power through global class scattering optimization and an L2-norm constraint, resulting in significant performance gains over state-of-the-art methods on AR, ORL, and LFW-A databases.
We present a novel Discriminant Locality Preserving Projections (DLPP) algorithm named Collaborative Discriminant Locality Preserving Projection (CDLPP). In our algorithm, the discriminating power of DLPP are further exploited from two aspects. On the one hand, the global optimum of class scattering is guaranteed via using the between-class scatter matrix to replace the original denominator of DLPP. On the other hand, motivated by collaborative representation, an $L_2$-norm constraint is imposed to the projections to discover the collaborations of dimensions in the sample space. We apply our algorithm to face recognition. Three popular face databases, namely AR, ORL and LFW-A, are employed for evaluating the performance of CDLPP. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that CDLPP significantly improves the discriminating power of DLPP and outperforms the state-of-the-arts.