Human face recognition and user interface system for digital camera and video camera

摘要

The present invention discloses a face recognition system which includes a face recognition method and associate apparatus. The disclosed method provides improved face matching accuracy by introduction of user intervention. When a target face to be recognized has been detected, a candidate list is generated and the user is allowed to actively select a matching candidate face out of the candidate list by entering a user input through a user interface provided by the disclosed apparatus. Data of the target face are then automatically registered to a database where the candidate face data are stored for updating the data of the matching candidate.