Math for Security

10 Computational Geometry for Facial Recognition

Let’s leave behind the world of resource distribution and look at another field where computational geometry can help you: facial recognition. Facial recognition is the process of examining the features of a face and determining if it matches a previously seen face and, if so, to what degree. Most babies can recognize familiar faces by three to four months old, but unfortunately, just because babies can do it doesn’t mean it’s easy, at least not for computers. We’ll need to combine computational geometry and machine learning algorithms for our program to perform at a similar level.

We’ll begin ...