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FACE RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES: A SURVEY

Face recognition is a necessity of the modern age as the need for identification of individual has increased with the globalization of the world. Personal authentication through face has been under research since last two decades. The performance of the face recognition system has been enhanced using various algorithms. A generic facial authentication method contains three major steps i.e. face detection, facial features segmentation and face recognition. There are many commonly used algorithms used for this purpose. This paper provides an overview of different face recognition approaches. These approaches are categorized into four classes in this paper. These are holistic based approach, model based approach, hybrid based approach and feature based approach. Various techniques introduced in each of these categories are discussed.