A Comparative Study of Face Recognition Techniques

Ahmed Ragab; Christina Albert; Mohamed B. Senousy

Face recognition is a widely used biometric technique with many advantages of being non-intrusive and natural. Recently, many applications are based on face recognition techniques including video surveillance, law enforcement, identity authentication, or any other application These systems are widely used online and provide a very fast recognition rate. Use face recognition as primary biometrics. Face recognition is very important especially in uncontrolled environment. It is a challenging task to recognize faces due to illumination, occlusion, pose variation, expressions, aging factors and alignment, etc. Paper describes the different methods and techniques that deal with these conditions, also the advantages and limitations of these techniques.

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• Volume 6,Issue 6, Nov. 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Face Recognition Techniques; Biometrics; Principal Component Analysis; Linear Discriminant Analysis; Independent Component Analysis

Journal:

IJECCE

Volume:

6

Number:

6

Pages:

762-770

Month:

November