A Novel Feature Fusion Approach Based on Blocking and Its Application in Image Recognition

According to the idea of canonical correlation analysis, a block-based method for feature extraction is proposed. The main process can be explained as follows: extract two groups of feature vectors from different blocks which belong to the same pattern; and then extract their canonical correlation features to form more effective discriminant vectors for recognition. To test this new approach, the experiment is performed on ORL face database and it shows that the recognition rate is higher than that of algorithm adopting single feature.