Neural Network Based Approach for Face Detection cum Face Recognition

Automatic face detection is a complex problem in image processing. Many methods exist to solve this problem such as template matching, Fisher Linear Discriminate, Neural Networks, SVM, and MRC. Success has been achieved with each method to varying degrees and complexities. In proposed algorithm we used upright, frontal faces for single gray scale images with decent resolution and under good lighting condition. In the field of face recognition technique the single face is matched with single face from the training dataset. The author proposed a neural network based face detection algorithm from the photographs as well as if any test data appears it check from the online scanned training dataset. Experimental result shows that the algorithm detected up to 95% accuracy for any image.

Authors:

• Kesari Verma
• Aniruddha S. Thoke
• Pritam Singh

Keywords:

• Face Detection
• Face Recognition
• NN Approach
• PCA Algorithm.

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