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Face Recognition in Videos with OpenCV — OpenCV 3.0.0-dev documentation


Whenever you hear the term face recognition, you instantly think of surveillance in videos. So performing face recognition in videos (e.g. webcam) is one of the most requested features I have got. I have heard your cries, so here it is. An application, that shows you how to do face recognition in videos! For the face detection part we’ll use the awesome CascadeClassifier and we’ll use FaceRecognizer for face recognition. This example uses the Fisherfaces method for face recognition, because it is robust against large changes in illumination.

Here is what the final application looks like. As you can see I am only writing the id of the recognized person above the detected face (by the way this id is Arnold Schwarzenegger for my data set):