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This paper identifies a novel feature space to
address the problem of human face recognition from
still images. This is based on the PCA space of the
features extracted by a new multiresolution analysis
tool called Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform. Curvelet
Transform has better directional and edge
representation abilities than widely used wavelet
transform. Inspired by these attractive attributes of
curvelets, we introduce the idea of decomposing
images into its curvelet subbands and applying PCA
(Principal Component Analysis) on the selected
subbands in order to create a representative feature
set. Experiments have been designed for both single
and multiple training images per subject. A
comparative study with wavelet-based and traditional
PCA techniques is also presented. High accuracy rate
achieved by the proposed method for two well-known
databases indicates the potential of this curvelet based
feature extraction method.