The document proposes a Laplacianface approach for face recognition. It uses locality preserving projections (LPP) to map face images into a subspace for analysis, preserving local information better than PCA or LDA. The Laplacianfaces are optimal linear approximations of the Laplace Beltrami operator on the face manifold. This helps eliminate unwanted variations from lighting, expression, and pose. Experiments show the Laplacianface approach provides better representation and lower error rates than Eigenface and Fisherface methods.