We describe a computer program which understands a greyscale image of a face well enough to locate individual face features such as eyes and mouth. The program has two distinct components: modules designed to locate particular face features, usually in a restricted area; and the overall control strategy which activates modules on the basis of the current solution state, and assesses and integra...

then recognize the person by comparing characteristics of the face to those of known individuals. Our approach treats the face recognition problem as an intrinsically twodimensional recognition problem, taking advantage of the fact that faces are are normally upright and thus may be described by a small set of 2-D characteristic views. The system functions by projecting face images onto a featu...

With man One of the most critical tasks in automated face recognition technology is the extraction of facial features from a facial images. The most critical task in each face recognition (FR) technology, which contributes the most to the success of particular FR products in particular applications and which is highly protected by industries developing those products, is the extraction of facia...