- MyHeritage
Family network to find other family members, share, explore, and preserve their heritage. Also offers face recognition for your photos and family tree.
www.myheritage.com
- Face Recognition
Information portal for students and researchers in facial recognition. Find research groups, new papers, databases and datasets, recognition algorithms, conferences, and books about facial matching technology.
www.face-rec.org
- Wikipedia: Facial Recognition System
Overview of computerized facial recognition systems, used to automatically identify a person from a digital image. Discusses popular facial recognition algorithms, and current experiments in the technology by casinos and law enforcement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system
- Face.com
Face recognition for the masses. Face.com scans all of your facebook photos, recognizes all of the faces in them, and then automatically tags them.
www.face.com
- Face Detection
Information about facial recognition technology and the task of detecting faces within images. With links to technical explanations, facial recognition software, adn datasets. By Dr. Robert Frischholz.
www.facedetection.com
- Face Recognition Vendor Test
Independent government evaluations of commercial face recognition technologies. See the results of yearly computerized facial recognition competitions from 2000 on.
www.frvt.org
- Betaface: Face Detection and Face Recognition
Live demo of face recognition software from Betaface. Upload a facial image to see it analyzed by the system. In English, Russian, and Polish.
www.betaface.com
- HowStuffWorks: How Facial Recognition Systems Work
Explains the basis and techniques used by facial recognition software to automatically identify a face in a crowd. Also discusses how facial recognition technology is being used in elections and criminal investigations.
www.howstuffworks.com/facial-recognition.htm
- Your Face Is Not a Bar Code
Arguments against automatic face recognition and the use of facial recognition software in public places. By Phil Agre.
dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/bar-code.html
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics Institute Face Group
Research group at Carnegie Mellon Universtiy investigating the perception and understanding of human faces. Find out about facial recognition, facial feature tracking, facial expression analysis, and other projects.
www.ri.cmu.edu/labs/lab_51.html
- Libface Project
Aims to develop an open-source, cross-platform library of facial recognition algorithms, beginning with the eigenface method.
openbio.sourceforge.net
- Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC): Face Recognition Information Page
News, action items, and resources on facial recognition software from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. With a roundup of media coverage, and links to research and policy papers about the technology.
www.epic.org/privacy/facerecognition
- International Biometric Group: Facial Recognition Technology
Online primers on facial recognition technology, how it works, and how it can be used, from the International Biometric Group. Registration required.
www.biometricgroup.com/reports/public/reports_facial-scan.html
- Forensic Evidence.com: Facial Recognition Systems
Are privacy rights of citizens being eroded wholesale? This article discusses the implications of biometric facial recognition technology for our daily lives. By Angela Jarvis.
www.forensic-evidence.com/site/ID/facialrecog.html
- Mathematics of Face Recognition, The
Overview of the science behind facial recognition technology, in which computerized systems are trained to match faces in a crowd with images in a database. From the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
www.siam.org/siamnews/04-03/face.htm
- Evaluation of Face Recognition Algorithms
Resources for researchers develoing facial recognition algorithms. Provides a standard set of algorithms for comparison, as well as research papers in human identification technology.
www.cs.colostate.edu/evalfacerec
- MIT Media Lab: Face Recognition Demo Page
Online demos of facial recognition software from an automatic system built by the MIT Media Laboratory, with diagrams and step-by-step explanations.
vismod.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/facerec
- Super Bowl Surveillance: Facing Up to Biometrics
Report examining the potential use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement or counterterrorism. In PDF format.
www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP209
- 3D Biometric Facial Recognition Comes To U.K.
Blog article about British facial recognition software that is supposedly sophisticated enough to make a distinction between identical twins. From Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends.
www.primidi.com/2004/11/26.html#a1036
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