FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING

MACHINE LEARNING
PROJECT REPORT

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS

FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE &
ENGINEERING

Submitted By
ASHISH JHA (2K21/CO/107)
AVIRAL (2K21/CO/120)
AYUSH KUMAR SINGH (2K21/CO/126)

Under the supervision of

DR. ARUNA BHAT

(ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
(Formerly Delhi College of Engineering)
Bawana Road, Delhi-110042
December 2024
 DECLARATION
We, ASHISH JHA (2K21/CO/107), AVIRAL (2K21/CO/120),
AYUSH KUMAR SINGH (2K21/CO/126), students of B.Tech
(Computer Science & Engineering), hereby declare that the Minor
Report titled 'Face Recognition System Using Machine
Learning' is a bonafide report of the work carried out by us. The
contents of this Report have not been submitted at any other
University or Institution for the award of any degree.

ASHISH JHA AVIRAL AYUSH KUMAR

SINGH

2K21/CO/107 2K21/CO/120 2K21/CO/126

 CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that the project titled 'Face Recognition System
Using Machine Learning' submitted by ASHISH JHA
(2K21/CO/107), AVIRAL (2K21/CO/120), AYUSH KUMAR
SINGH (2K21/CO/126), Department of Computer Science &
Engineering, DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering is a
record of the project work carried out under my supervision.

Project Guide
Dr. Aruna Bhatt

Department of CSE
Delhi Technological University
(Govt. of NCT, Delhi)
 ABSTRACT
Face recognition is a cutting-edge biometric technology that
identifies and verifies individuals based on their facial features. It
has gained widespread applications in areas such as surveillance,
security systems, authentication, and human-computer interaction.
With the increasing reliance on digital and automated solutions,
accurate and efficient face recognition systems have become a
critical requirement in both personal and professional domains.

In this work, we propose a face recognition system that leverages

few-shot learning to address the issue of limited labeled data,
coupled with a Siamese network for efficient learning of pairwise
similarities. To enhance the discriminative power of facial
representations, we integrate region-based feature amplification,
focusing on critical facial regions such as the eyes, nose, and
mouth. This approach dynamically emphasizes these regions while
mitigating the influence of irrelevant background information or
occlusions.

The system integrates modern libraries and tools such as OpenCV,

Dlib, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn and Grad-CAM, ensuring efficient
processing and high accuracy. By employing data augmentation
techniques, the model is trained to generalize effectively across
diverse datasets, handling variations in pose, illumination, and
occlusions. Furthermore, the system is designed to perform in real-
time scenarios, making it suitable for security surveillance and
access control applications.

Extensive experimentation and evaluation have demonstrated the

effectiveness of the proposed system, achieving high precision,
recall, and F1-score metrics on benchmark datasets like LFW and
VGGFace. This project not only contributes to the development of
face recognition technology but also sets the stage for future
enhancements, such as incorporating generative adversarial
networks (GANs) for synthetic data generation and exploring edge
computing for faster real-time deployment.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We express our heartfelt gratitude to our project guide, Dr. Aruna
Bhat, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Delhi Technological University, for their unwavering
support, guidance, and encouragement throughout the course of
this project. We would also like to thank all faculty members and
our friends who contributed to our knowledge and provided
invaluable assistance.

We are extremely grateful to all the panel members who evaluated

our progress, guided us throughout our project, and gave us
constant support and motivation, innovative ideas and all the
information that we needed to pursue this project.
 CONTENT

Declaration ............................................................................................................................. 1
Certificate ............................................................................................................................... 2
Abstract .................................................................................................................................. 3
Acknowledgement……….……………………………………………………………….....4
Content……….……………………………………………………………………...............
5 List of figures ……….……………………………………………………………………...
6 List of
abbreviations………………………………………………………………………....7 1.
Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 8
1.1. Overview ……….…………….……………………………………………... 9
1.2. Problem formulation………...………………………………………………...9
1.3. Objectives……….…………………………………………………………...10
1.4. Deep Learning…..……….…….……………………………………………..11
1.5. CNN...……………….…….…….………………………………………… 11
1.6. Significance of Deep Learning in Face Recognition …….
………………… 12
2. Related Work……….……………………………………………………………...13
2.1. Review of datasets...…………………………………………………….…...13
2.2. Review of studies...….……....……………..……...…………………………15
2.3. Limitations of existing work……...….………………………………………16
3. Proposed Methodology……….……………...…………………………………… 17
3.1 System Overview...........................................................................................17
3.2 Face Detection................................................................................................18
3.3 Face Alignment................................................................................................18
3.4 Facial Feature Amplication.............................................................................19
3.5 Feature Detection.............................................................................................20
3.6 Face Recogntion...............................................................................................20
3.7 Real-Time
Processing....................................................................................... 21
3.8 Accuracy
Improvement…………………………………………………..22 3.9
Challenges and
Considerations………………………………………………….22

4. Bibliography……………………………..….……….………………………………23
LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Visual representation of face recognition

Figure 2: Deep learning in Face Recogntion

Figure 3: FaceNet developed by google

Figure 4: Facial Feature amplification

Figure 5: Facial Feature detection

Figure 6: Triplet loss function using Siamese Network

 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

CNN: Convolutional Neural Network

SVM: Support Vector Machine

KNN: k-Nearest Neighbors

LFW: Labeled Faces in the Wild

VGG: Visual Geometry Group

GAN: Generative Adversarial Network

MTCNN: Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks

PCA: Principal Component Analysis

LBP: Local Binary Patterns

GRAD-CAM: Gradient Weighted Class Activation Mapping

CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION

1.1 Overview

Face recognition is a biometric technology that identifies and verifies

individuals based on their unique facial features. Over the last few
decades, face recognition has become one of the most prominent
applications in computer vision and artificial intelligence. Its potential for
automating identification processes has made it a popular choice in
various sectors such as security, law enforcement, healthcare, banking,
and personal devices.

In the security domain, for example, face recognition is commonly used

for surveillance, identity verification, and access control. With the rise of
smart technologies and the internet of things (IoT), the demand for
efficient and scalable face recognition systems has increased. As a
result, face recognition has become a focal point of research in both
academia and industry.

The key challenge in face recognition lies in the variation of faces due to
factors like lighting, facial expressions, pose, age, and occlusions (such
as glasses or hats). The ability to accurately identify faces in such varied
conditions requires a system that can adapt and generalize well to
different scenarios. Machine learning, and particularly deep learning, has
emerged as the most effective approach to address these challenges. By
learning from large datasets, face recognition models can adapt to these
variations and identify faces with remarkable accuracy.

This project aims to develop a robust face recognition system that can
overcome these challenges. By leveraging deep learning techniques,
particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), this system is
designed to detect, align, and recognize faces in images or video
streams. The system aims to be scalable, efficient, and accurate,
ensuring that it performs well under real-world conditions such as
variations in lighting, pose, and partial occlusions.

1.2 Problem Formulation

The primary challenge in building an effective face recognition system is

ensuring its accuracy and robustness in real-world conditions. Traditional
face recognition techniques often struggle to cope with variations in
lighting, facial expressions, and the angle of the face. These systems also
require a large amount of computational power and may suffer from
performance degradation when scaling to large databases of faces.
Face recognition systems need to address several key challenges:

• Variability in Face Appearance: Faces can appear very different

under different lighting conditions, poses, and expressions.

• Occlusion: Partial occlusion, such as glasses, hats, or other objects,

can obscure important facial features.

• Scalability: As the size of the database increases, the system must

be able to maintain high accuracy and speed.

• Real-time Processing: For applications like surveillance, the

system needs to identify faces in real time with minimal delay.

This project aims to develop a face recognition system that is capable of

handling these challenges effectively, offering both high accuracy and
real-time performance.

1.3 Objectives of the project

The main objectives of this project are as follows:

1. Face Detection: To detect faces accurately within images or video

streams using techniques like Haar cascades and MTCNN (Multi-task
Cascaded Convolutional Networks).

2. Face Alignment: To align the detected faces to a consistent

orientation and size, enabling better feature extraction.

3. Feature Extraction and Amplification: To extract meaningful

and discriminative features from aligned faces using deep learning
techniques, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and
amplify the most discriminative facial features in order to improve
the performance.

4. Face Recognition: To compare the extracted features against a

database of known faces and identify individuals using One Shot
Learning and Siamese Network as the loss function.

5. Real-time Processing: To ensure that the system can process and

recognize faces in real time, making it suitable for live applications
such as security surveillance.
 6. Accuracy Improvement: To achieve high accuracy even in
challenging conditions, such as variations in lighting, facial
expression, and partial occlusions.

1.4 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a class of deep learning

algorithms specifically designed for processing grid-like data, such as
images. CNNs have revolutionized the field of image recognition by
enabling models to automatically learn hierarchical features from raw
pixel data. Unlike traditional image processing techniques that require
manual feature extraction, CNNs are capable of learning to detect low-
level features (such as edges or textures) in the initial layers, and high-
level features (such as shapes or objects) in deeper layers.

In the context of face recognition, CNNs are used for feature extraction,
where the network learns to identify key facial features that distinguish
one individual from another. The typical architecture of a CNN consists of
several convolutional layers, pooling layers, and fully connected layers,
which work together to extract and classify features from the input
image. This makes CNNs particularly well-suited for tasks like face
recognition, where the features to be identified are spatially dependent
and highly complex.

1.5 CNN Model for Face Recognition

The architecture of a CNN model for face recognition typically includes

the following layers:
 • Convolutional Layers: These layers apply convolution operations
on the input image, scanning the image with filters (kernels) to
detect various patterns or features.

• Activation Layers: Non-linear activation functions (e.g., ReLU) are

applied after the convolutional operations to introduce non-linearity,
enabling the model to learn complex patterns.

• Pooling Layers: Pooling operations, such as max pooling, reduce

the spatial dimensions of the image, keeping only the most
important features, thus reducing computational complexity.

• Fully Connected Layers: These layers connect all the neurons

from the previous layers to produce the final output, which in face
recognition tasks is typically a vector representing the identity of
the face.

1.6 Significance of Deep Learning in Face Recognition

Deep learning, especially CNNs, has significantly improved the

performance of face recognition systems. Before the advent of deep
learning, face recognition systems relied heavily on manual feature
extraction methods, such as Eigenfaces or Local Binary Patterns (LBP),
which had limitations in handling variations in facial appearance. Deep
learning has overcome these limitations by learning the optimal features
directly from the data.
Furthermore, deep learning models have the ability to generalize across
large datasets, enabling them to handle variations in face appearance,
lighting, and

expression. This ability to learn hierarchical features from raw data,

rather than relying on handcrafted features, has made deep learning the
go-to solution for face recognition tasks.
CHAPTER 2 : RELATED WORK

In this chapter, we will review the existing research and approaches

related to face recognition systems, focusing on traditional methods,
recent advancements in deep learning, and the specific challenges that
face recognition systems face when deployed in real-world scenarios.

2.1 Review of Datasets

A crucial aspect of developing any face recognition system is the

availability of high-quality datasets that contain images of faces with
various conditions such as different lighting, poses, and occlusions.
These datasets provide the training and testing material needed to
evaluate the performance of face recognition models. Some of the most
commonly used datasets in the field are as follows:

1. LFW (Labeled Faces in the Wild)

◦ Size: 13,000 labeled images
◦ Subjects: 5,749 individuals
◦ Purpose: The LFW dataset is widely used for evaluating face
verification systems. It contains images collected from the
web, making it diverse in terms of lighting and pose.
◦ Challenges: It includes variations in pose, illumination, and
expression, making it a good benchmark for testing the
generalization capabilities of face recognition models.

2. VGGFace
◦ Size: 2.6 million images
◦ Subjects: 2,622 individuals
◦ Purpose: The VGGFace dataset is one of the largest publicly
available datasets for face recognition, used for training deep
learning models. It contains a wide range of faces captured in
various conditions.
◦ Challenges: It contains images from both professional and
casual settings, and the images cover a broad variety of face
expressions, age groups, and ethnic backgrounds.

3. MS-Celeb-1M
◦ Size: 10 million images
◦ Subjects: 100,000 individuals
◦ Purpose: The MS-Celeb-1M dataset is one of the largest face
recognition datasets in terms of the number of images. It is
designed to support large-scale face recognition systems.
 ◦ Challenges: The large size of the dataset allows the model to
be trained on diverse data, but it also presents challenges
related to data cleaning and ensuring that the identities are
correctly labeled.

2.2 Review of Studies

Numerous approaches have been proposed for face recognition over the
years, ranging from traditional methods to deep learning-based
techniques. This section provides an overview of the evolution of face
recognition systems.

1. Traditional Methods
Early face recognition systems relied on methods like Eigenfaces
and Fisherfaces, which performed dimensionality reduction to
represent faces in a lower-dimensional space:
◦ Eigenfaces (Principal Component Analysis - PCA) reduced the
dimensionality of face images by projecting them onto a
lower-dimensional space. These methods were effective in
controlled environments but struggled with variations in
lighting, pose, and expression.
◦ Fisherfaces (Linear Discriminant Analysis - LDA) aimed to
find a lower-dimensional representation that maximized class
separability. While Fisherfaces improved performance over
Eigenfaces, they still lacked robustness against variations in
real-world scenarios.

2. Limitations: Traditional methods struggled with issues such as

poor generalization to unseen faces, variations in lighting, pose, and
facial expressions, and required manual feature extraction.

3. Deep Learning Approaches

With the advent of deep learning, particularly Convolutional
Neural Networks (CNNs), face recognition has undergone a
significant transformation. CNNs are able to automatically learn
features from images, eliminating the need for manual feature
engineering and allowing the model to better generalize to unseen
data.
◦ DeepFace (2014), developed by Facebook, was one of the
pioneering deep learning models for face recognition. It
introduced a deep neural network that utilized pre-trained
CNNs and demonstrated human-level performance on the LFW
dataset.
◦ FaceNet (2015), developed by Google, introduced an
innovative approach by using a triplet loss function to
optimize the model for face recognition. Instead of classifying
faces into identity classes, FaceNet directly learns a mapping
to a lower-dimensional space where similar faces are closer
together. This triplet-based training method improved the
ability of the model to generalize to new faces.
 4.
Recent

Advances
More recent advancements have focused on improving face
recognition in challenging real-world conditions, such as varying
lighting, pose, and occlusion.
◦ MTCNN (Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks):
This model is used for both face detection and alignment. It
performs exceptionally well in detecting faces in images with
various poses, lighting conditions, and occlusions. The MTCNN
approach involves multiple stages, including a proposal
network, a refinement network, and an output network for
accurate bounding box predictions.
◦ ArcFace: ArcFace is a more recent model that uses additive
angular margin loss to improve the accuracy of face
recognition. It introduced a new loss function that helps to
separate classes in the embedding space, resulting in better
performance in real-world recognition tasks.

5. Challenges: Despite the success of these deep learning

approaches, face recognition models still face challenges in dealing
with extreme facial variations, large databases, and privacy
concerns. For instance, models might struggle when faces are
partially occluded (e.g., by glasses or hats) or when the lighting
conditions are highly variable.

2.3 Limitations of Existing Work

Although significant progress has been made in face recognition, existing
systems still suffer from several limitations:

1. Lighting Variability: Changes in lighting conditions, such as harsh

shadows or overexposure, can affect the performance of face
recognition systems.

2. Pose and Expression Variability: Systems often struggle with

faces that are viewed from different angles or exhibit different facial
expressions. While CNNs are robust to moderate variations,
extreme pose or expression changes still present challenges.

3. Occlusions: Face recognition systems perform poorly when parts of

the face are covered by accessories, masks, or hands. While recent
advances in face alignment and multi-task models like MTCNN help
mitigate this, there is still room for improvement.

4. Real-time Processing: For face recognition in security systems or

surveillance, the ability to process images or video streams in real
time is crucial. Most state-of-the-art models are computationally
expensive and require optimization to function efficiently in real-
time scenarios.

5. Scalability: As the size of the dataset grows, the performance of

face recognition models may degrade. This is particularly true for
systems that need to handle millions of faces in large databases.
Efficient models are needed to scale without sacrificing accuracy.

2.4 Gaps in Existing Research

Despite the advancements made in face recognition, several areas

remain underexplored:

1. Handling Extreme Variations: More research is needed to handle

extreme variations in illumination, pose, and occlusion, especially in
real-time applications.

2. Cross-Dataset Generalization: Models trained on specific

datasets often fail to generalize to other datasets or real-world data.
Research on transfer learning and domain adaptation can help
address this challenge.

3. Privacy and Ethical Concerns: With the increasing deployment of

face recognition systems in public spaces, privacy concerns have
become a significant issue. Research into ethical guidelines,
 consent-based systems, and methods to protect individual privacy
is essential.

4. Efficient Real-Time Systems: There is a need for more efficient

face recognition models that balance computational cost with high
accuracy, especially for deployment in edge devices and security
surveillance systems.
CHAPTER 3 : PROPOSED METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, we outline the methodology used to design and

implement the face recognition system. This methodology is built on the
foundations of deep learning, particularly Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNNs), to achieve high accuracy and efficiency in real-time
face detection, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition. The
methodology also considers the challenges of variations in lighting, facial
expressions, pose, and occlusions.

3.1 System Overview

The proposed face recognition system follows a multi-step process to

achieve the end goal of identifying and verifying individuals from images
or video streams. The system consists of the following key components:

1. Face Detection
2. Face Alignment
3. Feature Amplification
4. Feature Extraction
5. Face Recognition
6. Real-Time Processing

Each of these components plays a crucial role in ensuring the overall

accuracy and performance of the system, even in challenging conditions.

3.2 Face Detection

Face detection is the first step in the face recognition pipeline. This task
involves locating one or more faces within an image or video frame and
creating a bounding box around each detected face. The system needs
to handle various challenges, including different poses, lighting
conditions, and occlusions.

The face detection process is carried out using Haar cascades and deep
learning-based models such as MTCNN (Multi-task Cascaded
Convolutional Networks), which can detect faces with high accuracy
under a wide range of conditions. MTCNN works by performing three
stages of processing:

• Proposal Network (P-Net): It generates candidate face bounding

boxes.
• Refinement Network (R-Net): It filters out false positives from
the proposal network.
• Output Network (O-Net): It refines the bounding boxes further
and provides accurate face detections.
The advantage of MTCNN is that it is capable of detecting faces from
various poses, orientations, and even partial occlusions, which are
common in real-world scenarios.

3.3 Face Alignment

Once faces are detected, the next step is face alignment. Face
alignment involves rotating and scaling the detected faces to a
consistent orientation and size, ensuring that the model can extract
meaningful features regardless of the original pose or size of the face.

For face alignment, we use facial landmark detection methods, which

identify key facial features such as the eyes, nose, and mouth. Once
these landmarks are identified, the face can be aligned by applying
transformations like rotation, scaling, and translation, so that the key
facial features (e.g., eyes) are positioned in consistent locations across
all faces.

This process is essential for improving the accuracy of feature

extraction, as it ensures that the CNN model consistently receives faces
with a similar orientation, making the feature extraction process more
effective.

3.4 Facial Feature Amplification

After the facial Alignment, Region based amplification takes place. In this
process, the facial regions such as Eyes, Nose, etc. that hold high
discriminative power, are amplified.

The Amplification process consists of the following steps:

 Facial Landmark Detection

To isolate specific regions, first detect facial landmarks. Tools for this include:

 Dlib: Provides robust facial landmark detectors.

 OpenCV: Works well with pre-trained landmark models.
 MediaPipe: Offers fast, real-time landmark detection.

Once you have landmarks, you can extract regions like eyes, nose, and mouth.

 Isolate and Amplify Regions

For each key region:

  Region Masking:
o Use the landmark coordinates to create masks for regions like the eyes,
nose, and mouth.
o Apply these masks to the image to isolate and process specific areas.
 Enhancement Techniques:
o Sharpening: Use filters to highlight edges within regions.
o Contrast Adjustment: Increase contrast for better distinction.
o Illumination Normalization: Equalize lighting within each region.

 Attention-Driven Amplification

Integrate attention mechanisms to focus on the regions dynamically:

 Add a spatial attention module that amplifies feature maps corresponding to

key regions.
 Weight the embeddings of different regions based on their importance (e.g.,
eyes > mouth).

 Region-Specific Feature Extraction

Extract and process features for each region independently:

 Use a CNN for each region (e.g., one branch for eyes, another for mouth).
 Fuse the outputs at a later stage for final embeddings.

 Handle Occlusions

Region-based amplification is especially useful for partial occlusions:

 If parts of the face (e.g., the mouth under a mask) are obscured, amplify
visible regions like eyes and nose.
 Use adaptive masking to focus on unoccluded areas.
3.5 Feature Extraction

Feature extraction is the core task in the proposed methodology. In this

step, we extract discriminative and unique features from the aligned face
images. These features will later be used to identify the individual in the
face recognition process.

For feature extraction, we use Convolutional Neural Networks

(CNNs). CNNs have been shown to be highly effective in image
recognition tasks due to their ability to automatically learn hierarchical
patterns and spatial features from raw image data.

The CNN consists of multiple layers:

• Convolutional Layers: These layers apply a set of filters to the

image to learn different features like edges, textures, and shapes.
The convolution operation slides these filters over the input image
and detects spatial hierarchies.
• Activation Layers: After the convolution operation, non-linear
activation functions such as ReLU (Rectified Linear Unit) are
applied to introduce non-linearity, enabling the model to learn
complex patterns.
 • Pooling Layers: Pooling operations (e.g., max pooling) are used
to reduce the spatial dimensions of the feature maps while
retaining the most important features. This helps to reduce the
computational load and increase efficiency.
• Fully Connected Layers: After the convolution and pooling layers,
the output is passed through fully connected layers to produce a
compact, discriminative representation of the face. This
representation is often referred to as the embedding or feature
vector.
The extracted feature vector serves as the unique representation of the
face, capturing critical information like the distance between facial
landmarks, the shape of the face, and texture details. These features are
then used to perform face recognition.

3.6 Face Recognition

After feature extraction, the next step is face recognition, where the
goal is to identify the person by comparing the extracted features to a
database of known faces. To do this, the system performs a similarity
comparison between the features of the detected face and those in the
stored database.

 Few Shot Learning: We process the face embeddings through an

N-way K-shot learning model.
Here, a sample size of K images is already stored for N classes (No.
of people in the dataset) and the face embeddings are compared
with all those samples to find the closest classes to which the query
could belong to. The comparison is done by Siamese Network.

 Siamese Network: It is a type of neural network architecture designed to learn

a similarity function between pairs of inputs.
It uses triplet loss function that consists of Positive, Negative and anchor images that
ensure better seperation in embedding space.
3.7 Real-Time Processing

One of the key requirements of this project is real-time processing.

This means that the face recognition system must be able to process
images or video streams in real-time with minimal latency. Real-time
processing is critical for applications like security surveillance, where
rapid face identification is required.

To achieve real-time performance, we implement optimizations in the

face detection, alignment, and feature extraction processes. Techniques
like multi-threading or parallel processing are used to ensure that
different stages of the face recognition pipeline run simultaneously,
reducing overall processing time. Additionally, hardware acceleration
using GPUs is employed to speed up the CNN model, ensuring that the
system can handle high-resolution video streams efficiently.

3.8 Accuracy Improvement

To improve the accuracy of the face recognition system, several

strategies are employed:

• Data Augmentation: To make the system more robust to

variations in lighting, pose, and facial expressions, we augment the
training data by applying random transformations such as rotation,
scaling, and flipping.
• Transfer Learning: Instead of training the model from scratch, we
use pre-trained models like VGG-Face or ResNet, which have
already learned a wide range of features from large datasets. Fine-
tuning these models on our specific dataset helps improve accuracy
and generalization.
• Ensemble Learning: By combining the predictions of multiple
classifiers (e.g., KNN and SVM), the system can achieve better
accuracy by reducing the likelihood of misclassification.

3.9 Challenges and Considerations

Throughout the design and implementation of the face recognition
system, several challenges were encountered, including:

• Lighting Conditions: Faces in low or uneven lighting can affect

the performance of face detection and feature extraction.
Advanced data augmentation techniques and better CNN
architectures help mitigate this.
• Occlusions: Faces partially obscured by objects like glasses or hats
pose a challenge for detection and recognition. MTCNN and face
alignment methods help handle partial occlusions effectively.
• Real-Time Processing: Ensuring that the system can process and
recognize faces in real-time without compromising accuracy
requires careful optimization of the deep learning model and
efficient data handling.
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