Similarity Measures for Face Recognition

Mahalanobis Distance for Face Recognition

Author(s): Enrico Vezzetti and Federica Marcolin

Pp: 31-38 (8)

DOI: 10.2174/9781681080444115010005

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

If two vectors originate from the same underlying distribution, the distance between them could be computed with the Mahalanobis distance, a generalization of the Euclidean one. Also, it can be defined as the Euclidean distance computed in the Mahalanobis space. Moreover, there exist also the city block-based Mahalanobis distance and other versions including the angle- and cosine-based ones. Largely employed for face recognition with bi-dimensional facial data, Mahalanobis gains very good performances with PCA algorithms.


Keywords: Mahalanobis distance, Mahalanobis angle, Mahalanobis cosine measure.

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