Face image recognition via collaborative representation on selected training samples

In this paper, we present a collaborative representation-based classification on selected training samples (CRC_STS) for face image recognition. The CRC_STS uses a two stage scheme: The first stage is to select some most significant training samples from the original training set by using a multiple round of refining process. The second stage is to use collaborative representation classifier to perform classification on the selected training samples. Our method can be regarded as a sparse representation approach but without imposing l₁-norm constraint on representation coefficients. The experimental results on three well known face databases show that our method works very well.