Week 3

Literature Review - More sources on visual recognition were reviewed in order to understand the techniques used in current facial recognition strategies such as using the 'eigenface' values. As visual recognition sources were finalized, voice analysis sources as well as fingerprint analysis sources started to be reviewed.

Signal Processing was discussed among group members to get everyone on track. How far the project could be taken based on current resources were discussed, such as the possibility of dropping one of the security measures in order to full master the other ones. Programming strategies were also discussed, such as the steps that need to be taken to identify people by their faces. The steps are as follows:

1.  Take pictures of the people doing different facil expressions and put them into a master database
2.  Upon initialization of the program, take picture of the user's face, who will line up with a template on the screen.
3. Use picture and compare it to the pictures in database
4. Output a final result of % match