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help with face recognition and identification

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JonathanJace

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Hey everyone, i'm trying to create an application in VB, .net that will scan facial photos of our employee database and recognize them from screen grabs in our cameras or vice versa.

I'm not looking to develop any face recognition/identification code as a lot of it is open source, i am basically looking for help in tracking down an all inclusive module to add into this application.

Added info: I have the face photo database and the cameras in our building take captures and saves them to a set location.

Any advice would be extremely appreciated.
 
Facial recognition is state of the art tech still being researched to the tune of millions of dollars. I doubt you're going to find a simple open source control you can just plug into VB.
 
Why not use something that has been out for a while though, like fingerprint recognition? You could always do a combination also.. fingerprint + rfid or barcode or something...

Also back when I did some research on optical vs. fingerprint at the time it seemed like fingerprint was the clear winner for our situation with significantly less false positive matches. Also there are tons of fingerprint readers you can buy on the market, even some of the very good ones are really dirt-cheap in comparison to other technologies! Many brands can include an SDK for interaction with your software, or like you mentioned there are plenty of open source things going around as well.
 
Originally posted by: JonathanJace
that is the popular consensus on this topic, but the main reason is that a search on any search engine returns massive amounts of complex information that is quite frankly is not understandable.
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Heh, I'll bet. As BoberFett says, it is state of the art technology. This is pretty much the furthermost outpost of image processing and analysis. There is a lot of information on algorithms, but as far as I know there aren't any free packages, and probably won't be for a few years.

 
Looks like lot from that source is from around 10 years ago or so... surely they have advanced a little since then? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: joshg
Looks like lot from that source is from around 10 years ago or so... surely they have advanced a little since then? 🙂
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Yeah, that is material for a college class, it isn't going to be the most state of the art.
 
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