Computer Vision Using Deep Learning: Neural Network Architectures with Python and Keras

© Vaibhav Verdhan 2021

V. VerdhanComputer Vision Using Deep Learninghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6616-8_6

6. Face Recognition and Gesture Recognition

Vaibhav Verdhan¹  

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Limerick, Ireland

 

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?—Pablo Picasso

This chapter continues from the thought from Pablo Picasso. We humans are intrigued by our faces and faces of others, our smiles, our emotions, the different poses we make, and different expressions we have. Our mobile phones and cameras capture all of this. When we recognize a friend, we recognize the face – its shape, eyes, facial characteristics. And quite interestingly, even if we look at the same face from a side pose, we will be able to recognize it.

Surprisingly, ...