Computer-readable storage media, computing devices and methods are discussed herein. In embodiments, a computing device may be configured to perform facial recognition based on gradient based feature extractions of images of faces. In embodiments, the computing device may be configured to determine directional matching patterns of the images from the gradient based feature extraction and may utilize these directional matching patterns in performing a facial recognition analysis of the images of faces. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
FACE RECOGNITION USING GRADIENT BASED FEATURE ANALYSIS