Semi-supervised Discriminant Analysis and Sparse Representation-based self-training for Face Recognition

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of automatic face recognition with limited manually labeled training data. We propose a new semi-supervised self-training approach which is used to automatically augment the manually labeled training set with new unlabeled data. Semi-supervised Discriminant Analysis is used in each iteration of self-training for discriminative dimensionality reduction by making use of both labeled and unlabeled training data. Sparse representation is applied for classification. Experimental results on four independent databases show that our algorithm outperforms other face recognition methods under 3 different configurations, namely transductive, semi-supervised and single training image.