Environment Independent Hybrid Face Recognition System Using a Fixed Camera and a PTZ Camera

Abstract

With the growth of the high resolution CCTV camera market, face recognition from farther distances is required in addition to short distances. Thanks to advanced face recognition technology, faces can be recognized with- out any concern for the condition of the area around the face. In this paper, we used two cameras, the fixed format camera and the PTZ camera, a fixed format camera and a PTZ camera, to separate face detection and face recognition func- tionalities for load distribution of the face recognition module. This face recog- nition method can be integrated with global video monitoring, unmanned tech- nology, etc. We suggest that an environment independent hybrid face recogni- tion system enables the face detection at far distances with multi-channel CCTV video input processing. We can expect a new intelligent video security monitor- ing market that uses the new face recognition system.