• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to design and implement a kernel for the support vector machine(SVM) to improve the performance of face recognition. Local feature analysis(LFA) has been well known for its good performance. SVM kernel plays a limited role of mapping low dimensional face features to high dimensional feature space but the proposed kernel using LFA is designed for face recognition purpose. Because of the novel method that local face information is extracted from training set and combined into the kernel, this method is expected to apply to various object recognition/detection tasks. The experimental results shows its improved performance.