Facial biometrics and applications
John Soldera, Guilherme Garcia Schu, Lucas Royes Schardosim, Eric Tadiello Beltrao · IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine · 2017
Faces carry a lot of information to distinguish different individuals. In this context, biometrics-based verification systems play a major role in terms of recognizing (or confirming) an individual identity, relying on physiological and/or behavioral characteristics among a set of individual biometric traits. In particular, facial recognition is important because it has a relatively low cost (i.e., it can be carried out using standard cameras) and is one of the least intrusive biometric modalities available, since it does not require physical contact like fingerprint recognition or retina scanning.