In this paper an efficient face recognition technique is presented by integrating Discrete Wavelet Transform and Compressive Sensing based classifier. At first discrete wavelet transform has been applied on each face images. Then an image fusion technique has been applied on the decomposed image to provide better detail information of face images. Principal component Analysis is applied on fused face images to extract the feature vector. Finally, the feature vector of test images is extracted and classified by Compressive Sensing based Classifier. This proposed technique is also tested on two publicly available databases on AR and ORL. This technique is also tested on masked face images and experimental result shows improved performance compared to conventional PCA.

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