A new method for face recognition using convolutional neural network

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of the proposed Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with three well-known image recognition methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Local Binary Patterns Histograms (LBPH) and K–Nearest Neighbour (KNN) is tested. In our experiments, the overall recognition accuracy of the PCA, LBPH, KNN and proposed CNN is demonstrated. All the experiments were implemented on the ORL database and the obtained experimental results were shown and evaluated. This face database consists of 400 different subjects (40 classes/ 10 images for each class). The experimental result shows that the LBPH provide better results than PCA and KNN. These experimental results on the ORL database demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method for face recognition. For proposed CNN we have obtained a best recognition accuracy of 98.3 %. The proposed method based on CNN outperforms the state of the art methods.