The Importance Of Object Recognition

Our face becomes the primary focus of attention in the society nowadays, playing a major role in conveying identity and emotion. Although our ability to infer intelligence or character from facial appearance is still doubtful but our ability to recognize faces is remarkable. A human can recognize thousands of faces that he/she see throughout the lifetime and identify familiar faces at a glance even after years of separation. This skill is quite amazing, despite of large changes due to viewing conditions, expression, aging, and distractions such as glasses, beards, changes in hair style or accessories in the face. Recognizing faces is something that people usually do effortlessly and without much conscious thought, yet it has remained a difficult

Object recognition deals with determining the identity of an object being observed in the image from a set of known labels. Oftentimes, it is assumed that the object being observed has been detected or there is a single object identify in the image. It is one of the most fascinating abilities that humans easily possess since childhood. With a simple glance of an object, humans are able to tell its identity or category despite of the appearance variation due to change in pose, illumination, texture, deformation, and blockage. Furthermore, humans can easily generalize from observing a set of objects to recognizing objects that have never been seen before. Hence, it is some of the characteristics of human that computer vision research wants to adapt and integrate in our technology. Some of the practical applications of object recognition systems such as autonomous taxis that recognize hailing pedestrians, personal robots that can learn about specific objects in your home, and automated farming equipment that is trained on site to recognize the plants and materials that it must interact with. Nowadays object recognition is vital component to the skills a robot must have. But it is not just object recognition, it was now improve to recognize human and eventually even the face of a person the face

Even the ability to merely detect faces, as opposed to recognizing them, can be important. Although it is clear that people are good at face recognition, it is not at all obvious how faces are encoded or decoded by a human brain (Agarwal et al., 2010). While this appears as a easy task for human beings, it is a very challenging task for computers, and has been one of the top studied research topics in the past few decades. The goal of face recognition is to determine whether or not there are any faces in the image and, if present, return the image location and extent of each