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Face Recognition

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Face classification; Face recognition

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Face recognition is a biometric technique that identifies or verifies a person by comparing and analyzing the visual patterns from the person’s facial image. Face recognition can be divided into two types of tasks, face verification and face identification.

Face verification aims to determine whether two given face images are from the same person or not. Face identification aims to determine the identity of a query face image from a number of registered persons. Usually, the query image is compared with the face images of all the registered persons to identify the similar ones. Face identification involves one-to-many matches, while face verification involves one-to-one matches. As the number of registered persons in the database increases, both the accuracy and the efficiency of face identification decrease. However, the performance of the face verification is not much...

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  1. Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

    Yu Qiao

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Xiaogang Wang

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Qiao, Y., Wang, X. (2021). Face Recognition. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_354-1

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