Based on discriminative component analysis(DCA)algorithm
a local discriminative component analysis(LDCA)algorithm for facial expression recognition is proposed.First
LDCA algorithm chooses a number of nearest neighbors of a test sample from a training set to capture the local data structure.Then
the facial expression features of each testing sample are extracted by maximizing the total variance between the discriminative data chunklets and minimizing the total variance of data instances in the same chunklets.The experimental results on several representative facial expression datasets show that proposed method not only improves the recognition rate of DCA algorithm