The Essential Guide to Video Processing

CHAPTER 20 Face Recognition from Video

Shaohua Kevin Zhou¹, Rama Chellappa², Gaurav Aggarwal²,

¹ Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

² Center for Automation Research (CfAR) and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

20.1 Introduction

Although face recognition (FR) from a single still image has been studied extensively [1, 2], FR based on a video sequence is an emerging topic, evidenced by the growing increase in the literature. It is predictable that with the ubiquity of video sequences, FR based on video sequences will become more and more popular. In this chapter, we also address FR based on a group of still images (also referred to as multiple still images). ...