Facial Recognition with Eigenfaces

Published: Jan. 7, 2015, 1:30 a.m.

b"A true classic topic in ML: Facial recognition is very high-dimensional, meaning that each picture can have millions of pixels, each of which can be a single feature. It's computationally expensive to deal with all these features, and invites overfitting problems. PCA (principal components analysis) is a classic dimensionality reduction tool that compresses these many dimensions into the few that contain the most variation in the data, and those principal components are often then fed into a classic ML algorithm like and SVM. \\n\\nOne of the best thing about eigenfaces is the great example code that you can find in sklearn--you can distinguish pictures of world leaders yourself in just a few minutes!\\n\\nhttp://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/applications/face_recognition.html"