SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING FACE USING IR LIGHTING

摘要

The present invention relates to a system and a method for recognizing a face using IR lighting. More specifically, the invention concerns a face recognition system and method which adopts IR lighting to be robust to external environments. The face recognition system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: an IR lighting unit which irradiates an infrared ray; an image acquisition unit which uses an IR filter to acquire an input image including a particular face through the irradiated ray; a feature information extraction unit which extracts the feature information on the particular face included in the input image; and a face recognition unit that recognizes the face included in the input image by comparing the extracted feature information with the feature information of a person's image stored in a database.