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Robust face recognition via sparse representation：(基于稀疏表示的人脸识别)

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Robust Face Recognition via Sparse Representation

John Wright, Student Member, Allen Y. Yang, Member, Arvind Ganesh, Student Member,

S. Shankar Sastry, Fellow, and Yi Ma, Senior Member.

Abstract— We consider the problem of automatically recog- parsimony as a principle for choosing a limited subset of features

nizing human faces from frontal views with varying expression or models from the training data, rather than directly using the

and illumination, as well as occlusion and disguise. We cast data for representing or classifying an input (test) signal.

the recognition problem as one of classifying among multiple

linear regression models, and argue that new theory from sparse The role of parsimony in human perception has also been

signal representation offers the key to addressing this problem. strongly supported by studies of human vision. Investigators have

Based on a sparse representation computed by -minimization, recently revealed that in both low-level and mid-level human

we propose a general classification algorithm for (image-based) vision [7], [8], many neurons in the visual pathway are selective

object recognition. This new framework provides new insights for a variety of specific stimuli, such as color, texture, orientation,

into two crucial issues in face recognition: feature extraction and

robustness to occlusion. For feature extraction, we show that if scale, and even view-tuned object images. Considering these neu-

sparsity in