Personal system for practical face recognition

We propose a personal image processing system for face recognition. It locates a subject's face in the image and recognizes the person using only simple commercial devices such as an NTSC video camera and a personal computer. This system can locate a subject's face and recognize the person in real-time without imposing strict conditions on the background, by using mosaic pattern matching. We describe the system configuration and its algorithm, and show experimental results for various faces and environments.