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Real Time Embedded Face Recognition using

ARM7
B.koteswar rao 1, P. Rama Krishna 2 , MA.Wajeed 3

*(Department of ECE, SBCE, Khammam

Email: bonagirikoteswarrao @gmail.com)
** (Department of ECE, LITS, Khammam
Email: ramakrishnaporandla@gmail.com
*** (Department of ECE, SITS, Khammam
Email:( wajeed.mohamad@gmail.com)

ABSTRACT embedded face recognition in this approach is based

Face recognition is a widely used biological
recognition technology. In comparison with other
identification methods, this type of recognition has
direct, friendly and convenient features. The
embedded face recognition system is based on
LPC ARM 2148 development board, using
Windows operating system, detecting face by
using HAAR feature, and then recognizing face by
using LBP features. Matlab is used as a front end
process and keil code runs at back end in ARM 7
Processor.
I. INTRODUCTION
Face Recognition technology developed in the 80's
and it has rapidly developed, especially in the 90's.
Automatic face recognition is a widely used
biological recognition technology. One of the key
challenges of face recognition is finding efficient and
discriminative facial appearance descriptors that can
counteract large variations in illumination, pose,
facial expression, ageing, partial occlusions and other
changes [19] .In comparison with other identification
methods, face recognition has more convenient
features. Human can visually identify people by
human face. People can be fairly identified even in
the very serious visual stimulated situation. The
on LPC ARM 2148 on windows operating systems.
Our approach is similar to [14] in that his approach is
on ARM 9 using Linux operating system. For Linux
based operating systems ARM 9 supports. In our
approach we have used windows as operating system.
For windows operating systems Microsoft has made
several advancements and changes that have made it
a much easier to use Operating System, and although
arguably it may not be the easiest Operating System,
it is still easier than Linux. Because of the large
amount of Microsoft Windows users, there is a much
larger selection of available software programs,
utilities, Windows.Microsoft Windows includes its
own help section, has vast amount of available online
documentation and help, as well as books on each of
the versions of Windows.
The main reason of selecting ARM7 is that it
supports windows operating systems and our
application supports windows. Now the market share
of face recognition is just less than the fingerprint
recognition and the proportion is increasing, which
have broken the situation that fingerprint recognition
monopolized the market in the international

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biological recognition market. Therefore, it is very
important for the research of face recognition
technology. This project, which is based on ARM7
and windows operating system, is a portable device
and meets the Requirements. In the last years,
different problems in face image analysis, such as
face detection, burr recognition [1] and facial
expression recognition [5] have received very much
attention in computer vision research.
The problem is more interesting from the viewpoints
of basic research aiming to efficient descriptors for
facial images and of applications such as surveillance
and human-computer interaction [2].A key issue in
face analysis are finding efficient de-scriptors for face
appearance. Given the low inter-person variation in\
face images, ideal descriptors should be very
discriminative. Still, they should be robust to
different perturbations and changes such as
illumination and pose changes, aging of the subjects,
etc. for displaying the image of output for
convenient and for more user options purpose code is
written in matlab as front end.
Because Matlab is a high performance language for
technical computing It integrates computation
visualization and programming in an easy to use
environment. And processing of image and
recognition of image is done by using ARM
processor that runs at backend. This paper is
organized as follows. In section II we overview about
some of the prior face recognition related research
that led to our research. In section III we present the
details of our face recognition system and in section
IV about the results and followed by experiment
analysis and conclusion.
II.RELATED WORK
In this section, we briefly describe some other
techniques for face recognition. Fei zuo, with
Eindhoven [26] proposed Real-time embedded face
recognition for smart home in which he proposed a
near real-time face recognition system for embedding
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in consumer applications. Their aim is to design and
build a face recognition system that is robust for
natural consumer environments and can be executed
on low-cost hardware.FA007 is an embedded facial
recognition system with the latest version of leading
“Dual Sensor™” Algorithm Ver 3.0, which applied
for high level access control application. Its classic
slope and industrial design is good for market like
Government, Civil ID. It is also good for commercial
market like Enterprise, Bank, and building
automation and so on.
Chin-Shu Chang; Teh-Lu Liao; Po-Yun
Hsu; Kuo-Kuang Chen proposed human face
recognition system using modified PCA algorithm
and ARM platform [27]. They used the human face
as the main subject for authentication.
Because the ARM system provides strong
computation ability, various interfaces such as
camera, mass storage, etc. Their study includes
recognizer algorithm-Principal Component Analysis
(PCA) is completely accomplished on the ARM
system. Finally, an ARM-based human face
recognition platform is implemented in this
study.Vikram kulkarni, k.Laxminarashima rao
proposed Embedded car security system on face
detection [28].
In this proposal embedded car security system, FDS
(Face Detection System) is used to detect the face of
the driver and compare it with the predefined face. In
case any theft to car information is sent to the owner
through MMS. So now owner can obtain the image
of the thief in his mobile as well as he can trace the
location through GPS.
The location of the car as well as its speed can be
displayed to the owner through SMS. So by using
this system, owner can identify the thief image as
well as the location of the car.
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III. IMPLEMENTATION
Fig 1: flow chart of embedded face recognition
system
The first step in this approach is to detect face. Face
detection is one of the major part in automatic face
detection. To best recognize the face in the given
image the system uses face class Harr [3] feature to
detect human face. In this thesis the face recognition
is based on the LBP algorithm and PCA with nearest
neighbor classifier as the core algorithms of the
system identification. Face samples are preprocessed
by using LBP and PCA to reduce the vector
dimension and we call it as reduced image feature.
The input image is taken and processed and
compared with the reduced image feature. The
distance from reduced image face to image face is a
measure of face similarity.
III.1Methodology of main Algorithm
In this process first the facial image is divided into
local regions and texture descriptors are extracted
from each region independently. The descriptors are
then concatenated to form a global description of the
face. See Fig 2 for an example of a facial image
divided into rectangular regions of size 3x3 .
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Figure 2: A facial image divided into 3x3 size.
Convert the local regions and texture descriptors to
binary values. Name it as LBP labels. The LBP label
contains information about the patterns on a pixel-
level, the labels are summed over a small region to
produce information on a regional level and the
regional histograms are concatenated to build a
global description of the face. The regions can be
weighted based on the importance of the information
they contain. For example, the weighted Chi square
distance can be defined as
X2 (A,B) = ∑I (Ai-Bi)2
_________
Ai+Bi
Where A, B are two image descriptors.
After converting image into the binary format
calculate the distance between the given input image
and the database image. The distance or similarity
metric from image A to image B is
D (A, B) =∑ pixels (i, j) of B w (d AkY (i,j) (i; j))
Here, kY (i,j) is the code value of pixel (i; j) of image
B and w( ) is a user-defined function giving the
penalty to include for a pixel at the given spatial
distance from the nearest matching code in A. Next
process is to check for the similarity between images
according to the distance among the images. The
process of calculating the distance is called kernel
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principle component analysis after calculation of
distance all the images are sorted according to the
distance with the input image and displays an output
image which has very less distance.
IV.SYSTEM TEST
Fig 3: figure showing uploading the data base image
and reading the image as shown in below.
Fig 4: figure showing the selecting image from the
database
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Fig 5: The selected image as shown in figure
Fig 6: output of the matched image shown in figure
V. EXPERIMENT ANALYSIS
Here in this process front end is written in matlab
code in windows operating system and back end is
written in keil code. Matlab is used for convenient
display of results, and it has more options to select,
optimize. The image that to be matched is given in
front end and that display is shown in Fig 2.The data
that is to be matched is given as another input for
comparison. For comparison the images are already
stored in data base .Select any image for comparison
that is shown in Fig 3. And selected image display is
shown in Fig 4. Then the comparison is done in
hardware where the program is written in keil in
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ARM 7 processor the required output whether match Feature and Adaboost [J]. Journal of Optoelectronics
found or not found is shown in Fig 5. y Laser, 2006, 17(8):0993-0998.

[6] Cao Lin, Wang Dong-feng, Liu Xiao-jun, Zou

VI.CONCLUSION Mou-yan. Face Recognition Based on Two-
Dimensional Gabor Wavelets [J]. Journal of
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on windows operating system is proposed and 0490-0494.
delivered good recognition performances under
[7] Liu Jing, Zhou Ji-liu. Face recognition based on
controlled conditions. Face recognition security Gabor features and kernel discriminant analysis
system is designed with the combination of
embedded and Matlab. By this approach we can
provide complete security for safeguarding to offices,
houses, banks, etc. In this thesis we proposed our
work based on windows operating systems.futher
research can be implemented on RTOS and other
sophisticated OS.
AUTHOR’S PROFILE:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the SARADA INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, Khammam for
Mr. B.Koteswarao,
technical support for the proposed system.
B.Tech(EC),M.Tech(ES) is
currently working as an
Assistant Professor, in
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Mr.MA.Wajeed,
Mr. Rama Krishna B.Tech(EC),M.T
P. received his ech(DECS) Gold
medalist, ISTE
B.Tech Degree in
MEMBER is
Electronics and currently working
communication as an Assistant
Professor, in
engineering in 2008
Department of
and M.Tech degree in DIGITAL ELECTRONICS Electronics &
AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS in 2011 Communication ,
from JNTU, Hyderabad, and A.P-India. He is in SARADA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY &
SCIENCES, Khammam, A.P, India. He was
currently working as an Assistant Professor in the
received a GOLD MEDAL in B.Tech (ECE). And
Department of ECE in LAQSHYA INSTITUTE OF Pursuing M.Tech belongs to Digital Electronics
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, Khammam, and &Communication systems .His research interests on
digital circuits, embedded systems &Electro magnetic
A.P-India. His research
and transmission lines and signals and systems. He
interests on digital circuits, IMAGE PROCESSING had 2 years of Teaching Experience in academic as
and Communication Systems .He had 3 years of well as competitive exams (GATE).
Teaching experience and also A LIFE MEMBER OF
INDIAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL
EDUCATION

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