Introduction to face recognition and face detection
Face recognition is the process of putting a label to a known face. Just like humans learn to recognize their family, friends, and celebrities just by seeing their face, there are many techniques for a computer to learn to recognize a known face. These generally involve four main steps:
- Face detection: This is the process of locating a face region in an image (a large rectangle near the center of the following screenshot). This step does not care who the person is, just that it is a human face.
- Face preprocessing: This is the process of adjusting the face image to look more clear and similar to other faces (a small grayscale face in the top-center of the following screenshot).
- Collecting and learning faces: This is the process of saving many preprocessed faces (for each person that should be recognized), and then learning how to recognize them.
- Face recognition: This is the process that checks which of the collected people are most similar...
