Face recognition system in cell phones based on text message service

Abstract

Face Recognition is a task human performs remarkably easily and successfully. This technology being easy to use, non-intrusive and simple to implement with less hardware requirements has a great advantage over other conventional biometrics. The goal of our work is to present face recognition with the help of sms/text messaging service on mobile platform to enlarge the scope of face recognition in the field of social security. This paper is aimed to help people recognizing any suspects or criminals as well as informing the concerned authorities with the help of sms. The use of mobile based platform gives the portability and versatility to this project. We plan to introduce the sms based face recognition technique which makes the work more scalable and also eliminates the use of GPRS or any other similar services, which is availed by less number of people compared to the total number of cell phone users. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.