Acquiring the facial image
More and more applications are turning to facial recognition to identify and authenticate an individual. Recent years have seen dramatic improvements in the technology, both in image capture and processing. As a result, facial recognition is slowly replacing other biometrics, such as fingerprint technology.
Facial recognition is used in a wide range of applications, from enforcing the law and providing access control to securing our borders. In order to be the most effective, it’s important to capture a high-quality image. During this process, there are several challenges to overcome, such as being able to handle non-face artifacts such as eye glasses and jewelry.
In the next section, we’ll focus on what steps are involved in capturing the facial image. Let’s start the discussion with evaluating 2D and 3D image capture.
Capturing images using 2D or 3D
In the past, there was mainly 2D, with limited 3D image capture available...
