Handbook of Face Recognition

By Anil K. Jain and Stan Z. Li

Book Overview

This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational face recognition systems. After a thorough introductory chapter, each of the following chapters focus on a specific topic, reviewing background information, up-to-date techniques, and recent results, as well as offering challenges and future directions. Features: fully updated, revised and expanded, covering the entire spectrum of concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated face detection and recognition systems; provides comprehensive coverage of face detection, tracking, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition technologies, and issues in evaluation, systems, security, and applications; contains numerous step-by-step algorithms; describes a broad range of applications; presents contributions from an international selection of experts; integrates numerous supporting graphs, tables, charts, and performance data.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085729931X
• ISBN13: 9780857299314
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 699 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"