Çakir, S.Çetin, A. Enis2016-02-082016-02-082010-15-090091-3286http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22240An image feature extraction method based on the twodimensional (2-D) mel cepstrum is introduced. The concept of onedimensional mel cepstrum, which is widely used in speech recognition, is extended to 2-D in this article. The feature matrix resulting from the 2-D mel-cepstral analysis are applied to the support-vector-machine classifier with multi-class support to test the performance of the mel-cepstrum feature matrix. The AR, ORL, and Yale face databases are used in experimental studies, which indicate that recognition rates obtained by the 2-D mel-cepstrum method are superior to the recognition rates obtained using 2-D principal-component analysis and ordinary image-matrixbased face recognition. Experimental results show that 2-D mel-cepstral analysis can also be used in other image feature extraction problems. .English2-D mel cepstrumCepstral featuresFace recognitionImage feature extractionArticle10.1117/1.3488050