SENSORS, SIGNALS, VISUALIZATION, IMAGING, SIMULATION AND MATERIALS Face Recognition using Principle Component Analysis, Eigenface and Neural Network Mayank Agarwal Nikunj Jain Student Member IEEE Student Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University University Noida ,India Noida ,India
[email protected] [email protected] Mr. Manish Kumar Himanshu Agrawal Sr. Lecturer (ECE) Student Member IEEE Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University University Noida, India Noida, India
[email protected] [email protected] Abstract-Face is a complex multidimensional visual Face recognition has become an important issue in many model and developing a computational model for face applications such as security systems, credit card recognition is difficult. The paper presents a methodology verification, criminal identification etc. Even the ability to for face recognition based on information theory approach merely detect faces, as opposed to recognizing them, can of coding and decoding the face image. Proposed be important. methodology is connection of two stages – Feature Although it is clear that people are good at face extraction using principle component analysis and recognition, it is not at all obvious how faces are encoded recognition using the feed forward back propagation or decoded by a human brain. Human face recognition Neural Network. has been studied for more than twenty years. Developing The algorithm has been tested on 400 images (40 classes). a computational model of face recognition is quite A recognition score for test lot is calculated by difficult, because faces are complex, multi-dimensional considering almost all the variants of feature extraction.