xv, 225 pages , illustrations (some color) , 24 cm.
Electronic
Includes bibliographical references and index..
Introduction -- Statistical learning-based face recognition -- Kernel learning foundation -- Kernel principal component analysis (KPCA)-based face recognition -- Kernel discriminant analysis-based face recognition -- Kernel manifold learning-based face recognition -- Kernel semi-supervised learning-based face recognition -- Kernel-learning-based face recognition for smart environment -- Kernel-optimization-based face recognition -- Kernel construction for face recognition.