A generalized two-dimensional quaternion principal component analysis
(G2DQPCA) approach with weighting is presented for color image analysis. As a
general framework of 2DQPCA, G2DQPCA is flexible to adapt different constraints
or requirements by imposing Lp​ norms both on the constraint function and
the objective function. The gradient operator of quaternion vector functions is
redefined by the structure-preserving gradient operator of real vector
function. Under the framework of minorization-maximization (MM), an iterative
algorithm is developed to obtain the optimal closed-form solution of G2DQPCA.
The projection vectors generated by the deflating scheme are required to be
orthogonal to each other. A weighting matrix is defined to magnify the effect
of main features. The weighted projection bases remain the accuracy of face
recognition unchanged or moving in a tight range as the number of features
increases. The numerical results based on the real face databases validate that
the newly proposed method performs better than the state-of-the-art algorithms.Comment: 15 pages, 15 figure