A novel nearest feature space classifier for face recognition

Nearest feature space (NFS) classifier had been proposed to enhance the limited prototypes' representation capacity. In this paper, we provide a formal definition and a theoretical analysis to Feature Space. Furthermore, a novel NFS classifier is proposed for face recognition. Experimental results using the ORL face database indicate that the proposed NFS obtains a better recognition performance than Chien's NFS, which means a larger prototype representation capacity.

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