FACIAL DETECTION and RECOGNITION

Abstract

Face recognition has been one of the most interesting and important research fields in the past two decades. The reasons come from the need of automatic recognitions and surveillance systems, the interest in human visual system on face recognition, and the design of human-computer interface, etc. These researches involve knowledge and researchers from disciplines such as neuroscience, psychology, computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning, etc. A bunch of papers have been published to overcome different factors (such as illumination, expression, scale, pose, etc.) and achieve better recognition rate, while there is still no robust technique against uncontrolled practical cases which may involve kinds of factors simultaneously. In this report, we’ll go through general ideas and structures of recognition, important issues and factors of human faces, critical techniques and algorithms, and finally give a conclusion.