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Robust Face Verification using Skin Color and Neural Networks

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The performance of face verification systems has steadily improved over the last few years. State-of-the-art methods often use the gray-scale face image as input. In this paper, we use an additional feature to the face image: the skin color. The feature set is tested on a benchmark database, namely XM2VTS, using a simple discriminant artificial neural network. Results show that the proposed model achieves robust state-of-the-art results.

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Facial recognition system

A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a or a video frame against a database of faces. Such a system is typically employed to authenticate users through ID verification services, and works by pinpointing and measuring facial features from a given image. Development began on similar systems in the 1960s, beginning as a form of computer application. Since their inception, facial recognition systems have seen wider uses in recent times on smartphones and in other forms of technology, such as robotics.

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Face detection is a computer technology being used in a variety of applications that identifies human faces in digital images. Face detection also refers to the psychological process by which humans locate and attend to faces in a visual scene. Face detection can be regarded as a specific case of object-class detection. In object-class detection, the task is to find the locations and sizes of all objects in an image that belong to a given class. Examples include upper torsos, pedestrians, and cars.

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