Abstract

Facial recognition techniques have become increasingly popular in recent decades. This thesis investigates the performance of several methods applied to two different face databases, under a variety of poses and illumination settings. PCA, LDA and KNN are compared and contrasted in terms of their accuracy and processing time.

Committee Chair

Todd Kuffner Department of Mathematics

Committee Members

Jimin Ding, Mladen Victor Wickerhauser

Comments

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7C53J95

Degree

Master of Arts (AM/MA)

Author's Department

Statistics

Author's School

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

Spring 5-2017

Language

English (en)

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