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Face Identification

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Face identification is to automatically identify a person by computers based on a query face image. In order to determine the identity of the query face image, the face images of all the registered persons in the database are compared against the query face image and are re-ranked based on the similarities.

Background

Face identification is a powerful technology with wide applications to biometrics, surveillance, law enforcement, human-computer interaction, and image and video search. It is often confused with another research topic called face verification. Face verification is to validate a claimed identity based on the query image. It compares the query image against the face images whose identity is claimed and decides to either accept or reject the claimed identity. 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...

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

    Xiaogang Wang

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  1. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsushi Ikeuchi

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Wang, X. (2014). Face Identification. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_354

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