Two-dimensional Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Age-group Classification
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چکیده
This paper presents a novel LDA algorithm named 2DHLDA (2-Dimensional Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis). The proposed algorithms are applied on age-group classification using facial images under various lighting conditions. 2DHLDA significantly overcomes the singularity problem, so-called ’Small Sample Size’ problem (S3 problem), and the original feature space is split into useful dimensions and nuisance dimensions to reduce the influence of different lighting conditions. A two-phased dimensional reduction step, namely 2DHLDA+LDA, is used in our experiment. Our experimental results show that the new 2DHLDA-based approach improves classification accuracy more than the conventional 1D and 2D-based approaches.
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