Network-Based System for Face Recognition on Mobile Wireless Devices

This paper describes new internet-based face recognition system to be used in portable devices. In contrast to existing systems, which run computationally intensive facerecognition tasks at a mobile terminal shortening its battery lifetime, the proposed system uses mobile device only for image capturing and user-interface. All complex image processing tasks are performed by a remote high-powered network server to achieve robust and real time face recognition. The system is implemented in software and tested on Android-based Sony Tablet-S wireless terminal. According to measurements, it provides face recognition in images of 240x320 pixels in size at 10f/sec rate with very high accuracy. The paper discusses the proposed client-server architecture and the results of its experimental evaluation. Keywordsface recognition, face identification, network-based