1. A facial recognition system comprising: a face alignment module configured to locate feature points of a face in at least one image using a face alignment model; a signature extractor, implemented by one or more processor-based devices, configured to generate at least one reconstruction error and extract signature features from the face in the at least one image; and a recognizer configured to identify a person from the face in the at least one image based upon a direct combination of the extracted signature features and the at least one reconstruction error.