FACE RECOGNITION BY NEURAL NETWORKS

ABSTRACT
Face recognition is one of biometric methods, to identify given face image using main features of face. In this paper, a neural based algorithm is presented, to detect frontal views of faces. The dimensionality of face image is reduced by the Principal component analysis (PCA) and the recognition is done by the Back propagation Neural Network (BPNN). Here 200 face images from Yale database is taken and some performance metrics like Acceptance ratio and Execution time are calculated. Neural based Face recognition is robust and has better performance of more than 90 % acceptance ratio.

A face recognition system is a computer vision and it automatically identifies a human face from database images. The face recognition problem is challenging as it needs to account for all possible appearance variation caused by change in illumination, facial features, occlusions, etc. This paper gives a Neural and PCA based algorithm for efficient and robust face recognition. Holistic approach, feature-based approach and hybrid approach are some of the approaches for face recognition. Here, a holistic approach is used in which the whole face region is taken into account as input data. This is based on principal component-analysis (PCA) technique, which is used to simplify a dataset into lower dimension while retaining the characteristics of dataset. Pre-processing, Principal component analysis and Back Propagation Neural Algorithm are the major implementations of this paper. Pre-processing is done for two purposes (i) To reduce noise and possible convolute effects of interfering system,
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(ii) To transform the image into a different space where classification may prove easier by exploitation of certain features. 4 EXISTING SYSTEM:
There are many different identification technologies available, many of which have been in commercial use for years. The most common person verification and identification methods today are Password/PIN known as Personal Identification Number, systems. The problem with that or other similar techniques is that they are not unique, and is possible for somebody to forget loose or even have it stolen for somebody else. In order to overcome these problems there has developed considerable interest in biometrics identification systems, which use pattern recognition techniques to identify people using their characteristics. Some of those methods are fingerprints and retina and iris recognition. Though these techniques are not easy to use. For example in bank transactions and entry into secure areas, such technologies have the disadvantage that they are intrusive both physically and socially. The user must position the body relative to the sensor, and then pause for a second to declare himself or herself. That doesnt mean that face recognition doesnt need specific positioning. As we are going to analyze later on the poses and the appearance of the image taken is very important.

While the pause and present interaction are useful in high-security, they are exactly the opposite of what is required when building a store that recognize its best customers, or an information kiosk that remembers you, or a house that knows the people who live there. Face recognition from video and voice recognition have a natural place in these next generation smart environments, they are unobtrusive, are usually passive, do not restrict user movement, and are now both low power and inexpensive. Perhaps most important, however, is that humans identify other people by their face and voice, therefore are likely to be comfortable with systems that use face and voice recognition.
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4.5 PROPOSED SYSTEM:

. The goal of this project is to make a system to recognize Face using Artificial Neural

Networks (ANNs). After testing both methods results will be compared. System should learn from the set of images taken by digital camera. After that it should return the probability of existence of any recognized image, based on the same type of image made by user. Artificial Neural Networks are one of the most efficient methods for pattern recognition. They are used as a model for simulation of the workings of a brain With the rapid evolution of the technology and the commercialization of technological achievements, face recognition became more and more popular, not only for research but also for the use of security systems. That gave the motive to many researchers, and also companies in order to develop techniques for automatically recognizing faces that would find many applications, including security and human-computer interaction. For instance, a face recognizing machine could allow automated access control for buildings or enable a computer to recognize the person sitting at the console. Most existing face recognition systems, however, work only for frontal or nearly frontal images of faces. By recognizing faces under varying pose, one makes the conditions under which face recognition systems operate less rigid.

4.6 HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: Suggested Hardware Requirements

The hardware configuration required to perform smooth running is as Processor Memory Hard Disk Monitor : Pentium III, or above : 128MB RAM256MB recommended : 4GB or above : 14SVGAMonochromeor Above

Suggested Software Requirements

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The Software specification for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET to perform smooth running is as Operating System Front End Programming Language Used : : Microsoft Windows NT/2000 : Microsoft Visual Studio. NET : C#.Net

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