Python Machine Learning Cookbook

Building a face recognizer using Local Binary Patterns Histogram

We are now ready to build a face recognizer. We need a face dataset for training, so we've provided you a folder called faces_dataset that contains a small number of images sufficient for training. This dataset is a subset of the dataset that is available at http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Image_Datasets/faces/faces.tar. This dataset contains a good number of images that we can use to train a face-recognition system.

We will use Local Binary Patterns Histograms to build our face-recognition system. In our dataset, you will see different people. Our job is to build a system that can learn to separate these people from one another. When we see an unknown image, this system will assign ...