Essay On Face Recognition System

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INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction:
A face recognition system is one of the popular Computer Application for automatic verification or identification of any person either from a given image or from any video source. Face recognition is mainly used for the security purpose and one can compare this with the other biometrics like fingerprint, iris recognition system. The main advantages of a face recognition system over the other biometrics application is that it not necessary need to ask the person to come in front of camera or in any sensor like in other it required the person should take his body in front of the sensor and stay there for few second. For the face recognition if a person is simply walking from any surveillance camera it can capture information of the person without his/her knowing about that and can identify or verify the person. In a face recognition …show more content…

Security: If anyone wants to give the access control to only specific person then he/she can apply the face recognition there. For example, wants to give access to airport, buildings, ATM machine.
2. Surveillance: Now day, lots of surveillance cameras are used for monitoring any known criminal if anyone passes through that camera he/she can easily identify.
3. General identity verification: Face recognition can be used for verifying the identity of any person. For example voter ID, driving license, employee ID etc.
4. Video indexing: The face recognition can also use in the area of video indexing such as identifying faces in video.
5. Criminal justice systems: The face recognition can be used in the field of Criminal justice System such as mug-shot/booking systems, post-event analysis, forensics etc.

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