Constructing PCA baseline algorithms to reevaluate ICA-based face-recognition performance

Jian Yang, Dapeng Zhang, Jing Yu Yang

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Abstract

The literature on independent component analysis (ICA)-based face recognition generally evaluates its performance using standard principal component analysis (PCA) within two architectures, ICA Architecture I and ICA Architecture II. In this correspondence, we analyze these two ICA architectures and find that ICA Architecture I involves a vertically centered PCA process (PCA I), while ICA Architecture II involves a whitened horizontally centered PCA process (PCA II). Thus, it makes sense to use these two PCA versions as baselines to reevaluate the performance of ICA-based face-recognition systems. Experiments on the FERET, AR, and AT&T face-image databases showed no significant differences between ICA Architecture I (II) and PCA I (II), although ICA Architecture I (or II) may, in some cases, significantly outperform standard PCA. It can be concluded that the performance of ICA strongly depends on the PCA process that it involves. Pure ICA projection has only a trivial effect on performance in face recognition.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1015-1021
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Volume37
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2007

Keywords

  • Face recognition
  • Feature extraction
  • Image representation
  • Independent component analysis (ICA)
  • Principal component analysis (PCA)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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