In the traditional ICA method the entire face image is considered for
holistic approach of face recognition, hence large variation in pose or
illumination will affect the recognition rate profoundly. In this
approach dividing the face image in sub-images, independent components
are obtained on these sub-images and used for face recognition. Here we
have explored modular ICA approach with partition of facial images as
well as with local facial components such as eyes, nose and mouth. The
face recognition task affects due to presence of noise in facial images.
We have experimented ICA algorithms for reduction of noise from facial
images so as to reduce noise effect. The research work presented in this
book and methods proposed for face recognition are unique and definitely
will provide new way of analyzing facial features. This will be a good
contribution for research in biometrics and image processing field.