How to recognize a face?

Question

I am doing a project on face recognition.To test a face we need to store it as an array of coordinates of some points.But i don't understand how we will generate points out of a 3-D face?i.e how will we get a set of points from a particular image?

Answer 1

My friend, you have a lot of reading ahead. http://192.9.162.55/products/java-media/jai/forDevelopers/jaifaq.html for starters.

Answer 2

You'll probably want to look at faint or these other StackOverflow resources:

Face recognition Library

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1182849/face-detection-in-java

In addition, there's the Predator project - doesn't really help you, but you will be in awe.