Extract Gabor Features Based on Fisher’s Discriminant ZHOU hui-can1, LIU qiong1,WANG yao-nan2 (1.Hunan University of Art and Science, Department of Computer Science, Changde Hunan 415000,China; 2.Hunan University, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Changsha Hunan 410082,China) Abstract:A method for extracting optimal Gabor features is presented in this paper, witch bases on the theory of Gabor filters and combines the Fisher’s linear discriminant. In an image of handwritten numeral, the above-mentioned method tries to find the local optimal frequencies and orientations for filtering at all of the feature points. An experiment of handwritten numeral recognition to MNIST database indicates that the method has an advantage of directly extracting Gabor features conditions of small sample obviously. Key words:Gabor filters;Fisher’s linear discriminant;Handwritten numeral recognition;Features extracting;LIBSVM