Face recognition using Eigen faces is an approach to the detection and identification of human faces and then recognizes the person by comparing characteristics of the face to those of known individuals is described. This approach treats face recognition as a two-dimensional recognition problem, taking advantage of the fact that faces are normally upright and thus may be described by a small set of 2-D characteristic views. Face images are projected onto a feature space `face space' that best encodes the variation among known face images. The face space is defined by the `Eigen faces', which...