Mobile robot for face recognition: A collaborative environment

Nowadays human beings need to perform dangerous tasks involving the possibility of physical injury. This creates a demand of novel collaborative technologies between human and machines. In this paper we present a collaborative scheme aimed to support a mobile face recognition system for surveillance applications. Such face recognition system is based on facial feature lines and the Abonyi's and Szeifert's fuzzy classification scheme. A mobile platform which uses the latest technologies in mobile robotics is introduced. The implementation shows facial recognition rates up to 95% with the ORL facial database, and successful assessment for remote scene monitoring.