Face recognition by decision fusion of two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis and local binary pattern

To investigate the robustness of face recognition algorithms under the complicated variations of illumination, facial expression and posture, the advantages and disadvantages of seven typical algorithms on extracting global and local features are studied through the experiments respectively on the Olivetti Research Laboratory database and the other three databases （the three subsets of illumination, expression and posture that are constructed by selecting images from several existing face databases）. By taking the above experimental results into consideration, two schemes of face recognition which are based on the decision fusion of the twodimensional linear discriminant analysis （2DLDA） and local binary pattern （LBP） are proposed in this paper to heighten the recognition rates. In addition, partitioning a face nonuniformly for its LBP histograms is conducted to improve the performance. Our experimental results have shown the complementarities of the two kinds of features, the 2DLDA and LBP, and have verified the effectiveness of the proposed fusion algorithms.

KDLPCCA-Based Projection for Feature Extraction in SSVEP-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces

An electroencephalogram(EEG)signal projection using kernel discriminative locality preserving canonical correlation analysis(KDLPCCA)-based correlation with steady-state visual evoked potential(SSVEP)templates for frequency recognition is presented in this paper.With KDLPCCA,not only a non-linear correlation but also local properties and discriminative information of each class sample are considered to extract temporal and frequency features of SSVEP signals.The new projected EEG features are classified with classical machine learning algorithms,namely,K-nearest neighbors(KNNs),naive Bayes,and random forest classifiers.To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method,16-channel SSVEP data corresponding to 4 frequencies collected from 5 subjects were used to evaluate the performance.Compared with the state of the art canonical correlation analysis(CCA),experimental results show significant improvements in classification accuracy and information transfer rate(ITR),achieving 100%and 240 bits/min with 0.5 s sample block.The superior performance demonstrates that this method holds the promising potential to achieve satisfactory performance for high-accuracy SSVEP-based brain-computer interfaces.