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“The human face provides the most reliable means of person identification available to the human eye. ... Although it may seem that face recognition is a simple task, various factors have to be taken into account. These factors will be discussed in detail while referring to some of the experimental studies done on this subject. Results have concluded that although faces have been matched to those of criminals in the past, the process is in fact not simple at all. ... This disorder results in people having completely normal basic perception, but they suffer the “loss of specific recognition within a given class”, such as that of distinguishing faces. Despite this, “juries are said to favour eyewitness face recognition, and attach considerable weight to them.” However, “it is standard practice in many places for the courts to issue a warning about the potential fallibility of identification by eyewitnesses. ... Unfortunately, person identification from video captures is highly inefficient due to the following factors: the video quality, the lighting in the area, the viewpoint of the suspect, the colour quality of the video print, the duration of the actual scene and the actual expression on the suspects face. ... In addition, they found that the best viewpoint to capture a suspect’s face is at a three-quarter view and not a profile or frontal view . ... Once again, the same factors of viewpoint, expression, quality, colour and lighting affect the ability of an individual to match the cardholder’s photograph to live cardholder. ... This PDP network has been designed to work in selected computing systems that can recognize human faces, process speech, and read.
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Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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