Robust Face Recognition Technique for a Real-Time Embedded Face Recognition System

In Chapter 8, Shan, Bigdeli, Lovell and Chen propose a pose variability compensation technique which synthesizes realistic frontal face images from non-frontal views. It is based on modeling the face via active appearance models and estimating the pose through a correlation model. The proposed technique is coupled with adaptive principal component analysis (APCA) which was previously shown to perform well in the presence of both lighting and expression variations. The proposed recognition techniques, though advanced, are not computationally intensive. So they are quite well-suited to the embedded system environment. Indeed, the authors have implemented an early prototype of a face recognition module on a mobile camera phone so that the camera could be used to identify the person holding the phone.