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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Hyun-woo Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Tae-kyun Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Won-jun Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Seok-cheol Kee, Kyungki-do, KR;
Hyun-woo Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Tae-kyun Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Won-jun Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Seok-cheol Kee, Kyungki-do, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, Kyungki-do, KR;
Abstract
Provided are a face recognition apparatus and method in which a facial image is divided into facial component images. The apparatus includes a component division unit that divides an input facial image into a plurality of facial component images; a face descriptor generating unit that generates face descriptors using a transform matrix corresponding to the respective facial component images, the face descriptors being characteristic vectors; a registered face descriptor database (DB) that stores registered face descriptors; and an authentication unit that authenticates the input facial image by comparing face descriptors for the input facial image input from the face descriptor generating unit with the registered face descriptors and providing predetermined weights corresponding to each facial component to the comparison results of each facial component.