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To solve the small sample problem of biometric identification, this paper investigates the limiting case of the problem, i.e., the recognition of a single training sample, and proposes a single sample discriminant analysis method based on Gabor wavelet and KPCA-RBF (KPRC) classifier (kernel principal component analysis-radial basis function). The proposed method performs pixel-level fusion of face and palmprint images. Firstly, a face image and a palmprint image were subject to two-dimensional (2D) Gabor wavelet transform. The resulting Gabor face image and Gabor palmprint image were fused on the pixel level into a new fused image. Next, a new classifier called KPCA-RBF was designed to extract nonlinear discriminative features by KPCA, and classify objects with RBF. Based on AR database, FERET database, and palmprint database, the single sample discriminant analysis method was realized based on Gabor transform and KPCA-RBF classifier. Experimental results show that multimodal recognition methods clearly outshine single-modal recognition methods, and the GABOR-KPRC with pixel-level fusion achieves better recognition effect than other fusion methods. It was also demonstrated that Gabor transform and KPRC classifier can effectively improve the fusion effect, whether for pixel-level fusion or decision-level fusion.