A New Feature Extraction Method Based on the Information Fusion of Entropy Matrix and Covariance Matrix and Its Application in Face Recognition

The classic principal components analysis (PCA), kernel PCA (KPCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) feature extraction methods evaluate the importance of components according to their covariance contribution, not considering the entropy contribution, which is important supplementary informatio...

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Main Authors: Shunfang Wang, Ping Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/7/4664