Distance measures for PCA-based face recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 711-724

  Perlibakas, Vytautas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Distance measures; Face recognition; PCA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS; SUM SQUARE ERROR (SSE);

FACE RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 1842809903     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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