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What is Face Recognition (FR)

Chapter 156
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Is concerning to recognize faces from images or video. It consists of several stages: face detection (finding a face from images), feature extraction (obtain representative features of faces), feature comparison (matching detected face to faces in database), and verification (finding the detected face in pre-determined set) or identification (finding the identity of detected face).
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An Overview for Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Yu-Jin Zhang (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch156
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