CentralNotice Eigenface From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article includes a list of references , but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (July 2008) Some eigenfaces from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge Generated faces using FaceMachine Eigenfaces is the name given to a set of eigenvectors when they are used in the computer vision problem of human face recognition . [ 1 ] The approach of using eigenfaces for recognition was developed by Sirovich and Kirby (1987) and used by Matthew Turk and Alex Pentland in face classification. [ 2 ] The eigenvectors are derived from the covariance matrix of the probability distribution over the high- dimensional vector space of face images. The eigenfaces themselves form...