Introduction Facial Recognition system Applications

Difficulties

The human face plays an important role in our social interaction, conveying peoples identity Using the human face as a key to security, biometric face recognition technology has received significant attention in the past several years due to its potential for a wide variety of applications in both law enforcement and non-law enforcement

 A facial recognition system is a computer application for

automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database

The input of a face recognition system is always an image or video stream The output is an identification or verification of the subject or subjects that appear in the image or video Regardless of specific method used, the facial recognition is accomplished in a five step process

ACQUIRING THE IMAGE OF AN INDIVIDUALS FACE 2 WAYS TO AQUIRE IMAGE 1)Digitally scan an existing photograph 2)Acquire a live picture of a subject

LOCATE IMAGE OF FACE -software is used to locate the faces in the image that has been obtained

ANALYSIS OF FACIAL IMAGE -software measures face according to is peaks and valleys (nodal points) -focuses on the inner region of the face known as the golden triangle -nodal points are used to make a face print

COMPARISON -the face print created by the software is compared to all face prints the system has stored in its database.

MATCH OR NO MATCH -software decides whether or not any comparisons from step 4 are close enough to declare a possible match

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Law Enforcement. Minimizing victim trauma by narrowing mug shot searches , verifying identify for court records Security. Alert homeowners of approaching personnel

Voter verification. Minimize fraud by verifying identity

Benefit payments. Minimize fraud by verifying identity

Banking. Minimize fraud by verifying identity

Identify similar faces (inter-class similarity)

Accommodate intra-class variability due to:

head pose illumination conditions expressions facial accessories

aging effects

Different persons may have very similar appearance

Twins

Father and son

Faces with intra-subject variations in pose, illumination, expression, accessories, color, occlusions, and brightness

Face recognition does not work well include poor lighting, sunglasses, long hair, or other objects partially covering the subjects face, and low resolution images