Definition
A face recognition system recognizes an individual by matching the input image against images of all users in a database and finding the best match.
Introduction
Face recognition has received significant attention in the last 15 years, due to the increasing number of commercial and law enforcement applications requiring reliable personal authentication (e.g. access control, surveillance of people in public places, security of transactions, mug shot matching, and human–computer interaction) and the availability of low-cost recording devices.
Despite the fact that there are more reliable biometric recognition techniques such as fingerprint and iris recognition, these techniques are intrusive and their success depends highly on user cooperation, since the user must position her eye in front of the iris scanner or put her finger in the fingerprint device. On the other hand, face recognition is non-intrusive since it is based on images recorded by a distant camera, and can be...
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Tsalakanidou, F., Malassiotis, S., Strintzis, M.G. (2008). Face Recognition. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_319
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