Semi-Automatic One-To-One Face Matching

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Requirements: Matlab, Matlab Image Processing Toolbox.
The field of biometrics involves identifying people by measuring parts of their bodies. It now
promises to find wide acceptance as a convenient and secure alternative to typed passwords,
mechanical keys, or written signatures for access to computers, facilities or vehicles, and
identification for financial transactions. Personal access control systems have been implemented
using visual recognition for identification of individuals. Visual recognition systems use
characteristic portions of the human body for identification purposes. Typical of this type of
access control are face recognition systems and fingerprint recognition systems. Face recognition
systems essentially operate by comparing some type of model image of a person's face (or
representation thereof) to an image or representation of the person's face extracted from an input
image. Image recognition, and particularly face recognition, is becoming an increasingly popular
feature in a variety of applications. Face recognition applications can be used by security
agencies, law enforcement agencies, the airline industry, the border patrol, the banking and
securities industries and the like. Examples of potential applications include entry control to
limited access areas, access to computer equipment, access to automatic teller terminals,
identification of individuals and the like. In particular, security systems use face recognition to
grant or deny access to select individuals, or to sound an alarm when a particular person is
recognized, or to continually track an individual as the individual travels amongst a plurality of
people, and so on. In like manner, home automation systems are being configured to distinguish
among residents of a home, so that the features of the system can be customized for each
resident.
We have developed a semi-automatic approach for one-to-one face matching that is capable to
recognize an unknow input facial image. User has to manually select some fiducial points and
within a fraction of a second a unique facecode is generated. Such binary code uniquely
identifies a person.
Index Terms: Matlab, source, code, face, identification, one-to-one, 1:1, authentication,
recognition, CPD, semi-automatic.
Release 1.0 Date 2009.07.29
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