IMPROVED FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR SECURITY ACCESS AND IDENTIFICATION

摘要

A method and apparatus for identifying individuals for the purposes of determining clearance access or surveillance is characterized by enrolling an image of a person's face (6) either voluntarily (19) or secretly (70) to be later used for comparison (10) when the person voluntarily desires clearance (15) or is covertly detected (14). The system records the camera positioning (47), captures an image (40) saves the image (44) and records data from a region of interest (43) to a database (48) for later comparison. In the clearance access mode, an enrolled person enters an assigned personal identification number (66), another facial scan is taken (73) which is compared (78) with regions of interest from the enrollment database of images (68) to confirm the identity of the individual. In the surveillance mode, the system automatically detects a person's presence by comparing a captured image (104) to previously stored images in the database (108).