Discriminant NMFfaces for Frontal Face Verification

In this paper, a novel supervised feature extraction method is presented. The method employs discriminant analysis in the features derived by non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). In this way, a two phase discriminant feature extraction procedure is implemented, namely NMF plus linear discriminant analysis (LDA). The introduced method has been applied to the problem of frontal face verification using the well known XM2VTS database, where a better performance than NMF, eigenfaces and Fisherfaces has been achieved