I need to do a project in College, and I was thinking about Face Recognition. Do any of u guys have any sources of information that could be of any help to me. Further, is it a viable project? Will I be able to do the project in a year's time at a nominal cost that too....? Do u guys have any other suggestions, like someother project that could be of interest. Plz help me out........ :)

Vikram.

Very difficult, as far as I know no one has been able to accomplish this to any degree of reliability.

CodeRed: It has been done... to an extent...

vikram: Read up on image reading etc. One would think that it would be quite difficult without asking the users to stick bright orange dots on their heads...

Gian and Code Red, Do u have any other suggestions for a good viable project????

Vikram.

I think some face recognition thing is an assigned project in an AI course at CMU. You could search for papers produced by normal research on it at CMU.

intead of something as complicated as fce recognition, mnaybe try fingerprint recognition. the pictures are 2d so it would be a lot easier since you don't have to account for depth or the fact that the subject may not be holding their head exactly the same... just a though..

LMAO.. or write me a spell check for forums like these :-D

All I know is that they make you do it in university classes, so it can't be impossible. =)

Fingerprint recognition might be a bit too easy. You just scan the image data, compare it to the stored data, and calculate it's % difference.

I highly recommend taking a look at Intel's free Image Recognition/AI libraries on their developers site. They also have mathematics libraries, image processing libraries, etc. all free for the using and very advanced, using the latest algorithms and methodologies available (sorry, I don't have a URL on me. If you still can't find it, just ask and I'll dig it up).

Intel.. free.. what's the catch? :?)

Thanks a lot mates, u guys are really helpful :)

Well fingerprint recognition is OK , but doesnt it need some special purpose hardware to take the fingerprints????


Vikram

Miken,

I searched Google, but to no avail. I will be really pleased if u could help me out by providing the URL.m

Thank U,
Vikram.

yeah, you could use the hardware for fingerprints, but i was thinking more along the lines of what CodeRed was.. basically scan in a print ((ie// the one found at a crime scene)) and run that against a dB to find the person it matches.. i guess that might be too easy.. depends on the level of the class really, but if you're talking face recognition i guess it would be..