An improve face representation and recognition method based on graph regularized non-negative matrix factorization

Minghua Wan, Zhihui Lai, Zhong Ming, Guowei Yang

Abstract: Based on recently proposed Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Graph Embedded (GE) techniques with Discriminant Criterion (DC), we present in this paper a new algorithm of Face Representation and Recognition (FRR) called Discriminant Graph Regularized Non-negative Matrix Factorization (DGNMF) for dimensionality reduction (DR). Here, we firstly encode the geometrical class information by constructing an affinity graph using the DGNMF algorithm. After this, we determine a matrix factorization which adequately represents the graph structure. Finally, we conduct experiments to prove that DGNMF provides a better representation and achieves higher face recognition rates than previous approaches.