8.1. Introduction
Machine recognition of human faces from still or video images has attracted a great deal of attention in the psychology, image processing, pattern recognition, neural science, computer security, and computer vision communities. Its popularity results from its wide application ranging from static matching of controlled format photographs, such as passports, credit cards, driving licenses, and police photos, to real-time matching of video images for surveillance, access control, and security of public areas such as airports. Face recognition is probably one of the most non-intrusive and user-friendly biometric authentication methods currently available; a screensaver equipped with face recognition technology can automatically ...
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