Face Detection and Recognition on Mobile Devices

This hands-on guide gives an overview of computer vision and enables engineers to understand the implications and challenges behind mobile platform design choices. Using face-related algorithms as examples, the author surveys and illustrates how design choices and algorithms can be geared towards developing power-saving and efficient applications on resource-constrained mobile platforms. It presents algorithms for face detection and recognition, explains applications of facial technologies on mobile devices, and includes an overview of other computer vision technologies.