Research Article

Eigenvector Weighting Function in Face Recognition

Table 3

Performance comparison in terms of average error rate.

ApproachFeature dimensionError rate of 1st fold test (%)Error rate of 2nd fold test (%)Error rate of 3rd fold test (%)Error rate of 4th fold test (%)Average error ± std deviation (%)

FRGC database

PCA20052.62451.56944.68147.15549.007 ± 3.73
NPE13045.58743.07839.06240.37842.026 ± 2.90
EWF_NPE11044.40940.42436.96939.68640.372 ± 3.07
LPP19041.12738.06338.95735.67938.456 ± 2.25
EWF_LPP7041.30038.91936.68436.62138.381 ± 2.22

FERET database

PCA8046.82338.97131.51444.81140.530 ± 6.87
NPE7044.16937.88332.53845.73740.082 ± 6.06
EWF_NPE3043.64437.99833.02938.56138.308 ± 4.33
LPP7044.63138.65732.51646.35840.541 ± 6.28
EWF_LPP2043.35136.92432.94839.71938.235 ± 4.39