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| View Larger Image | Handbook of Face Recognition | Hardcoverby Stan Z. Li (Editor), Anil K. Jain (Editor)
| List Price: | $99.00 | | Price: | $77.62 | | You Save: | $21.38 (22%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Springer | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 398 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 15, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 926,924th |
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This book provides far more detail on the hardware aspects of robot building than any other I have seen to date and is worth picking up. — Steven Rainwater, Reviewer, Robots. This book is highly recommended as the explanations are clear, and the explanations are useful. — Colin McGregor, The Canadian Linux Users' Exchange For readers of Robot Building for Beginners (Apress, 2002), welcome to the next level!...
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| Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies)
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This edited volume gives the first-ever book-length presentation of contemporary research in the domain of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). What distinguishes AGI research from run-of-the-mill AI research is that it is explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence ? autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence ? in the short term. Bringing the diverse body of AGI research together in a single volume reveals the common themes among various...
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Although the history of computer-aided face recognition stretches back to the 1960s, automatic face recognition remains an unsolved problem and still offers a great challenge to computer-vision and pattern recognition researchers. This handbook is a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, written by a group of leading international researchers. Twelve chapters cover all the sub-areas and major components for designing operational face recognition systems. Background, modern techniques, recent results, and challenges and future directions are considered. The book is aimed at practitioners and professionals planning to work in face recognition or wanting to become familiar with the state-of- the-art technology. A comprehensive handbook, by leading research authorities, on the concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated face detection and recognition. Essential reference resource for researchers and professionals in biometric security, computer vision, and video image analysis. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 6 reviews)
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A huge stack of references by Okur Yazar (Istanbul, Turkey)  2 Stars
July 14, 2009
If you wish to have a useless book with 16 chapters with approximately 50 references per chapter to difficult academic papers (finding these papers is another big problem), with an accompanying text that guide you through these with a lot of photos; than you can buy this one. No mathematical guidence, no backgrounds, no introductory chapters. Just filled with from heaven send formulas, and references. such a complex subject is packed with a 395 pages and named as "handbook". You can't learn anything with this one. One star for photos, and one star for the very superficial text accompanying the huge list of references.
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details laking by Richard Schroeder (Buffalo, NY) 2 Stars
March 17, 2008
Don't expect to learn much with this book since the topics are discussed only superficially and with many details laking. In the end, if you really want to understand or implement the methods described in the book, you have to read the original papers that proposed the methods. In this sense, it is a good reference book. Another annoying problem is the difference in notation from one chapter to another.
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Condensed information by Lynellen Perry (Dumfries, VA USA)  4 Stars
February 15, 2008
One could probably gleen all the information here by reading a couple of dozen conference proceedings and journal articles, but one of the values of this book is that the information is condensed together into one volume. While some math and algorithms are given, most processes are simply described in general terms so the practitioner may still need to go dig up the referenced articles but at least you'll know where to start digging.
The Internet is constantly changing, so some of the URLs given for image databases in Chapter 13 have already changed. In addition, that chapter fails to mention that not all databases are free and most of them have very restrictive usage licenses that must be agreed to.
Overall I found this text to be a good overview or literature review of recent developments in the technologies of face detection, skin color modeling, face tracking, face modeling, facial expression analysis, and face recognition. As time goes by it will be less and less useful as technology moves forward but for now it is a good starting place for those interested in the field of study.
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Not practical by A. C. Kaplan 2 Stars
October 25, 2007
This book is a compilation of academic papers on biometrics with very little value for the practitioners.
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personal impression by Garybender  3 Stars
March 05, 2007
Not quite as good as the handbook of fingerprint technology, but still a fairly good summary of the state of the art in todays facial recognition technology. It seemed like it could have been a little deeper in places such as the area of justice with mugshots.
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| Reliable Face Recognition Methods: System Design, Implementation and Evaluation (International Series on Biometrics)
by Harry Wechsler (Author)
One of the grand challenges for computational intelligence and biometrics is to understand how people process and recognize faces and to develop automated and reliable face recognition systems. Biometrics has become the major component in the complex decision making process associated with security applications. The many challenges addressed for face detection and authentication include cluttered environments, occlusion and disguise, temporal changes, and last but not least, robust training...
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| Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods
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| Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
by Davide Maltoni (Author), Dario Maio (Author), Anil K. Jain (Author), Salil Prabhakar (Author)
This handbook provides in-depth coverage of the most recent advances and practices. Readers will find comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all the major concepts, topics, and security methods associated with fingerprint recognition. Written with the same formula that made the success of the first edition, the book includes the most recent state-of-the-art techniques in the field, as well as enhanced and updated chapters covering sensor technology, performance evaluation, standards, and...
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| Handbook of Biometrics
by Anil K. Jain (Editor), Patrick Flynn (Editor), Arun A. Ross (Editor)
Biometric recognition, or simply Biometrics, is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country. Biometric systems rely on the use of physical or behavioral traits, such as fingerprints, face, voice and hand geometry, to establish the identity of an individual. The deployment of large-scale biometric systems in both commercial (e.g., grocery stores, amusement parks, airports) and government (e.g., US-VISIT) applications has...
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| Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
by Gary Bradski (Author), Adrian Kaehler (Author), Bradski Gary (Author), Kaehler Adrian (Author)
"This library is useful for practitioners, and is an excellent tool for those entering the field: it is a set of computer vision algorithms that work as advertised." -William T. Freeman, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Learning OpenCV puts you in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of the free open source OpenCV library, this book introduces you to computer vision and...
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