A Literature Review on Face Recognition System

Abstract

Face recognition is a biometric system used to identify or verify a person from a digital image. Face recognition is undoubtedly an interesting research area, growing in importance in recent years, due to its applicability as a biometric system in commercial and security applications. These systems could be used to prevent unauthorized access or fraudulent use of ATMs, cellular phones, smart cards, desktop PCs, workstations, and computer networks. The appealing characteristic of a face recognition system is that, differently from fingerprint or iris biometric systems, it represents a not invasive control tool.  In this paper we provide literature review of various face recognition system.