The invention relates to a sparse-regularization-based face recognition method capable of realizing multiband face image
information fusion and belongs to the technical field of
image processing. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, acquiring visible-light, near-
infrared, intermediate-
infrared, far-
infrared and thermal-infrared training images; 2, performing normalization, background removal and illumination preprocessing; 3, extracting visible-light, near-infrared, intermediate-infrared, far-infrared and thermal-infrared sample facial features; 4, selecting the sample facial features based on a
sparse regularization method, evaluating coefficient and endowing weight under the classification significance according to the sample facial features, and fusing the sample facial features to obtain feature vectors representing the samples to serve as index vectors; 5, forming a
feature set according to the index vector; 6, segmenting a facial part from an image to be tested, performing operation of the step 2 to step 4 on the facial part to be tested to obtain a
feature vector of the facial part to be tested; and 7, sequentially calculating the distance between the
feature vector of the facial part to be tested and the feature vectors of the
feature set, and selecting the sample which corresponds to the
feature set with the minimal distance and is the person of the image to be tested. The method has the advantages that change of accessories, shelter and the like is overcome; the recognition precision is high; and the application range is wide.