<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/13389" mdate="2010-08-28 00:00:00"> <author>V. Kabeer and N.K.Narayanan</author> <title>A New Biologically Inspired Pattern Recognition Spproach for Face Recognition</title> <pages>388 - 393</pages> <year>2010</year> <volume>4</volume> <number>8</number> <journal>International Journal of Biomedical and Biological Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13389</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/44</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>This paper reports a new pattern recognition approach for face recognition. The biological model of light receptors cones and rods in human eyes and the way they are associated with pattern vision in human vision forms the basis of this approach. The functional model is simulated using CWD and WPD. The paper also discusses the experiments performed for face recognition using the features extracted from images in the AT &amp;amp;amp; T face database. Artificial Neural Network and k Nearest Neighbour classifier algorithms are employed for the recognition purpose. A feature vector is formed for each of the face images in the database and recognition accuracies are computed and compared using the classifiers. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms traditional way of feature extraction methods prevailing for pattern recognition in terms of recognition accuracy for face images with pose and illumination variations. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 44, 2010</index> </article>