Face Recognition Algorithm Based on Haar-Like Features and Gentle Adaboost Feature Selection via Sparse Representation

Abstract

This paper proposed a new face recognition algorithm based on Haar-Like features and Gentle Adaboost feature selection via sparse representation. Firstly, All the images including face images and non face images are normalized to size and then Haar-Like features are extracted . The number of Haar-Like features can be as large as 12,519. In order to reduce the feature dimension and retain the most effective features for face recognition, Gentle Adaboost algorithm is used for feature selection. Selected features are used for face recognition via sparse representation classification (SRC) algorithm. Testing experiments were carried out on the AR database to test the performance of the new proposed algorithm. Compared with traditional algorithms like NS, NN, SRC, and SVM, the new algorithm achieved a better recognition rate. The effect of face recognition rate changing with feature dimension showed that the new proposed algorithm performed a higher recognition rate than SRC algorithm all the time with the increasing of feature dimension, which fully proved the effectiveness and superiority of the new proposed algorithm.