Facial Recognition and Reconstruction

Abstract

Facial recognition and reconstruction is a rapidly developing field and has a great area of applications. It is a tool valuable and routinely used for crime investigation. Since last two decades great improvisation and automation have been discovered in the field of facial recognition and reconstruction. In this recent world of technological innovation and digitalization captured images and videos of criminal events have bought the facial recognition into the front field in judicial system. This chapter gives a brief introduction to facial recognition and reconstruction, together with different kinds of techniques used for the purpose of recognition and reconstruction face from different sources. A detailed discussion has been done on the challenges faced by experts for forensic facial recognition. At last the chapter shows some of the areas of application where facial recognition and facial reconstruction is successfully used. The aim of the chapter is to give a rough idea about the facial recognition and reconstruction along with its techniques and challenges.