TERM PAPER

ON
FACE DETECTION

SUBMITTED TO
G L BAJAJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
GREATER NOIDA

GUIDED BY: SUBMITTED BY:

 FACE DETECTION

INTRODUCTION

• Face detection is a computer vision technology that helps to

locate/visualize human faces in digital images. With the advent of
technology, face detection has gained a lot of importance especially
in fields like photography and security.

• Face recognition is one of the newer developments of biometric

identifiers that doesn’t require as much time or intrude on the
person its verifying. Other biometric identifiers, such as fingerprint
scanners and voice recognition, requires many different pieces in
order to function. Face recognition is a highly effective biometric
technology that holds a lot of potential.
 LANGUAGE USED
PYTHON
Python is a widely used
general-purpose, high level
programming language. It
was initially designed by
Guido van Rossum in 1991
and developed by Python
Software Foundation. It was
mainly developed for
emphasis on code readability,
and its syntax allows
programmers to express
concepts in fewer lines of
code.
FEATURES
• Easy to code
• Free and Open Source
• Object-Oriented Language
• GUI Programming Support
• High-Level Language
• Portable language
• Integrated language
• Interpreted Language
• Large Standard Library
• Dynamically Typed Language
 MATERIAL AND METHODS USED
OpenCV
• OpenCV is a Python library which
is designed to solve computer
vision problems. OpenCV
supports a wide variety of
programming languages such as
C++, Python, Java etc. OpenCV
Python is nothing but a wrapper
class for the original C++ library
to be used with Python. Using
this, all of the OpenCV array
structures gets converted to/from
NumPy arrays. This makes it
easier to integrate it with other
libraries which use NumPy.
Numpy
• Numpy is a general-purpose
array-processing package. It
provides a high-performance
multidimensional array object,
and tools for working with these
arrays. It is the fundamental
package for scientific computing
with Python.
Besides its obvious scientific uses,
Numpy can also be used as an
efficient multi-dimensional
container of generic data.
 SCOPE OF FACE DETECTION
• Today, one of the fields that uses facial recognition the most is security.
Facial recognition is a very effective tool that can help law enforcers
recognize criminals and software companies are leveraging the
technology to help users access their technology.
• This technology can be further developed to be used in other avenues
such as ATMs, accessing confidential files, or other sensitive materials.
This can make other security measures such as passwords and keys
obsolete.
• Another way that innovators are looking to implement facial recognition
is within subways and other transportation outlets. They are looking to
leverage this technology to use faces as credit cards to pay for your
transportation fee. Instead of having to go to a booth to buy a ticket for
a fare, the face recognition would take your face, run it through a
system, and charge the account that you’ve previously created. This
could potentially streamline the process and optimize the flow of traffic
drastically.
The future is here.
 Working of OpenCV with reference to NumPy

• OpenCV-Python is nothing but the python wrapper over the original

OpenCV C++ implementation.
• In an OpenCV, all the images are converted into NumPy arrays and this
makes it easier to integrate it with other libraries using numpy.
• In NumPy arrays, coloured image are represented in the form of 3D
matrix while gray scale image in 2D matrix.
Cascade classifier contains the features of the image, which will further help in
determining the portion of the face in the image.
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