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This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational face recognition systems. After a thorough introductory chapter, each of the following chapters focus on a specific topic, reviewing background information, up-to-date techniques, and recent results, as well as offering challenges and future directions. Features: fully updated, revised and expanded, covering the entire spectrum of concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated face detection and recognition systems; provides comprehensive coverage of face detection, tracking, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition technologies, and issues in evaluation, systems, security, and applications; contains numerous step-by-step algorithms; describes a broad range of applications; presents contributions from an international selection of experts; integrates numerous supporting graphs, tables, charts, and performance data.

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From the reviews: This book describes recent research in areas of interest to face recognition researchers. The authors give readers an in-depth overview of the history of face recognition and compare various approaches . The book covers all major components and subareas of designing operational face recognition systems. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the field of face recognition. you will gain some interesting insight into the history and the very latest in face recognition research. (Markus Burki, Computing Reviews, April, 2006)

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