Discriminant analysis with Gabor phase for robust face recognition

This paper presents an occlusion robust image representation method and apply it to face recognition. Inspired from the recent work [15], we propose a Gabor phase difference representation for occlusion robust face recognition. Based on the good ability of Gabor filters to capture image structure and the robustness to image occlusion shown in this paper, Gabor phase features are expected to be discriminative and robust for face representation in occlusion case. Besides, we adopt spectral regression based discriminant analysis with the extracted Gabor phase features to find the most discriminant subspace to classify different faces. In this way, an occlusion robust face image discriminant subspace is derived. Extensive experiments with various occlusion cases show the efficacy of the proposed method.