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Machine identification and recognition of human faces is a rapidly growing research area in both the academic and commercial world. Most of the research to date has concentrated on the use of two dimensional information, acquired from video cameras or photographs. The use of a three dimensional system is hoped to remove many of the problems affecting the two dimensional systems such as disruption caused by changes in the face’s orientation or changes in the ambient lighting. A three dimensional system will obviously not be influenced by orientation changes and the lighting is irrelevant, as it is the shape not the shading of the face that is important. For this system to be of practical ...

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Author
Tibbalds, Adam D.
Institution
University of Cambridge
Supervisor
Publication Year
1998
Upload Date
July 3, 2008

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