Face recognition

Posted on August 3, 2011 by jean-peter Fendrich

A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database.

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