Facing up to security in 3D

GRIFFITH University researchers want to partner with businesses, particularly in the finance sector, to develop commercial real-time, high-speed facial recognition technology for security applications. The team from the Griffith Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems computer vision and image processing lab has published work on a system that takes a front-and-side view of a face shot and fills in the gaps to render what the person would look like from any angle.

Lab head Yongsheng Gao said the team was using a new face coding and matching method called Line Edge Map and a directional points technique that would not be sensitive to changes in lighting.

"We're working on how to recognise rotated faces looking at the issues in the surveillance systems," Dr Gao said.