The document describes a proposed method for face recognition using additive block-based feature extraction. The method uses Chirp Z-Transform (CZT) and Goertzel algorithm for preprocessing to perform illumination normalization. It then divides the preprocessed image into blocks of equal size and superimposes them to extract features from the combined block. Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) is used to further extract texture features. Euclidean distance classification is used to measure similarity between trained and test images. The proposed approach is tested on benchmark datasets and demonstrates better performance compared to existing methods in handling pose and illumination variations.