Face Recognition for Smart Interactions

In this paper an overview of face recognition research activities at the interACT Research Center is given. The face recognition efforts at the interACT Research Center consist of development of a fast and robust face recognition algorithm and fully automatic face recognition systems that can be deployed for real-life smart interaction applications. The face recognition algorithm is based on appearances of local facial regions that are represented with discrete cosine transform coefficients. Three fully automatic face recognition systems have been developed that are based on this algorithm. The first one is the "door monitoring system" that observes the entrance of a room and identifies the subjects while they are entering the room. The second one is the "portable face recognition system" that aims at environment-free face recognition and recognizes the user of a machine. The third system, "3D face recognition system", performs fully automatic face recognition on 3D range data.