Ruicong ZHI †a) , Qiuqi RUAN †b) , Nonmembers, and Jiying WU †c) , Student Member SUMMARY This paper proposes a novel algorithm for image feature extraction-the dual two-dimensional fuzzy class preserving projections ((2D) 2 FCPP). The main advantages of (2D) 2 FCPP over two-dimensional locality preserving projections (2DLPP) are: (1) utilizing the fuzzy assignation mechanisms to construct the weight matrix, which can improve the classification results; (2) incorporating 2DLPP and alternative 2DLPP to get a more efficient dimensionality reduction method-(2D) 2 LPP. key words: locality preserving projections, fuzzy k-nearest neighbor classifier, fuzzy class preserving projections, facial expression recognition