There is Hope for Face Recogniation

Abstract

The temporal lobe of the brain (forward part of the brain) is partly responsible for our ability to recognize faces. Some neurons in the temporal lobe respond to particular features of faces. That particular lobe is also important for the processing of semantics in both speech and vision. The temporal lobe contains the hippocampus and plays a key role in the formation of long-term memory. Some people who suffer damage to the temporal lobe lose their ability to recognize and identify familiar faces. This disorder is called prosopagnosia. It has been estimated that at least 2% of the general population suffer from this infliction and it isn’t necessarily because of an injury to the right occipitotemporal cortex. The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the human brain and is at the back of the brain. During the recent years due to its many applications in different fields such as law enforcement, security scenarios or video indexing. Face recognition is a very challenging problem and up to date, there is no evident technique that provides a proper solution to all situations and different applications that face recognition may encounter. The context of this paper will address the question: is there any hope for face recognition? In a general context, I believe that face recognition in complex scenarios will remain unsolved for the next years. However there might be hope for specific contexts and applications if some techniques are further studied developed and combined

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