Intelligent 3D face recognition

Abstract

Face recognition technology has been a focus both in academia and industry for the last couple of years because of its wide potential application and its importance to meet the security needs of today's world. This paper proposes a method to tackle an important problem in 3D face recognition: the deformation of facial geometry that results from the expression changes of a subject. A framework composed of three subsystems: expression recognition system, expressional face recognition system and neutral face recognition system is proposed and implemented. This framework enables more intelligent face recognition. The recognition of faces that were neutral or exhibited one expression, i.e. smiling, was tested on a database of 30 subjects. The results proved the feasibility of this framework. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.