Title & Abstract

3D Facial Recognition: A Security Authentication Application

     The application of computer vision has been researched thoroughly over the past decade.  Facial recognition has been the focus of image based security in order to identify a criminal in a crowd.  However, these same techniques can be applied to identify authorized users in a controlled environment.  For example, allowing only the CEO of a company into a private conference room.  Applying the techniques used in facial recognition could replace more invasive methods such as the use of finger printing, RFID, magnetic bar codes, physical keys, etc.  Less intrusive methods such as 2D facial recognition have been thoroughly researched, but can be easily subverted or compromised.  3D Face Recognition has shown promising results [3] that suggest accuracy higher than that of 2D facial recognition.
     The goal of our project is to implement a relatively straightforward 3D face recognition system based on a proposed algorithm [3] that will accurately authenticate a single user.  We wish to explore the tradeoff between accuracy and speed as well as different combinations of existing algorithms.

The following is a link to our proposal (best viewed with MS Word): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40368164/daniel%26daniel_CSE155_proposal.docxm