Towards Unconstrained Face Recognition Using 3D Face Model

Over the last couple of decades, many commercial systems are available to identify human faces. However, face recognition is still an outstanding challenge against different kinds of real world variations especially facial poses, non-uniform lightings and facial expressions. Meanwhile the face recognition technology has extended its role from biometrics and security applications to human robot interaction (HRI). Person identity is one of the key tasks while interacting with intelligent machines/robots, exploiting the non intrusive system security and authentication of the human interacting with the system. This capability further helps machines to learn person dependent traits and interaction behavior to utilize this knowledge for tasks manipulation. In such scenarios acquired face images contain large variations which demands an unconstrained face recognition system.

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