Sunday, August 15, 2010

Facial recognition

Facial recognition

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. It is typically used in security systems and can be compared to other biometrics such as fingerprint or eye iris recognition systems. Face recognition is not perfect and struggles to perform under certain conditions. It has been getting pretty good at full frontal faces and 20 degrees off, but as soon as you go towards profile, there've been problems. Other conditions where face recognition does not work well include poor lighting, sunglasses, long hair, or other objects partially covering the subject’s face, and low resolution images.

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