Abstract
Face recognition, together with fingerprint recognition, speaker recognition, etc., is part of the research area known as ‘biometric identification’ or ‘biometrics’, which refers to identifying an individual based on his or her distinguishing characteristics. More precisely, biometrics is the science of identifying, or verifying the identity of, a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics (Bolle et al., 2003). Biometric characteristics include something that a person is or produces. Examples of the former are fingerprints, the iris, the face, the hand/finger geometry or the palm print, etc. The latter include voice, handwriting, signature, etc. (Ortega-Garcia et al., 2004).
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