Hardware-software embedded face recognition system

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a hardware-software embedded system for face recognition applications in images and/or videos. The system has hardware components to speed up the face detection and recognition stages. It is a system suitable for applications requiring real-time, due that the response times are deterministic and bounded. The system is based on a previous implementation that had accelerated the image capturing process, and the face detection. This paper will focuses in the face recognition acceleration.