A novel method for face recognition under partial occlusion or facial expression variations

Thir paper presents a new techniqzre for face recognition that can cope with partial occlussion or shong vuriations in facial expression. The method hies to solve the face recognition problem Pom a near- holistic perspective. The main idea is to "eliminate" some features which may came a reduction of the recognition accuracy tinder occlwion or expression changing. To test and evaluate the performance of the new technique. a series of experiments have been carried out which have shown improved pei$onnance and robustness when compared to the classical PCA.