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m Image Space
º @he basis of the image space is composed of the following vectors :
º @he basis vectors of this face space are called the principal
components
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m It is a way of identifying patterns in data,
and expressing the data in such a way
as to highlight their similarities and
differences
m Since patterns in data can be hard to
find in data of high dimension, PCA is a
powerful tool for analysing data
m PCA aims to catch the total variation in
the set of the training faces, and to
explain this variation by a few variables
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m Step 1: Get some data
m Step 2: Subtract the mean