Face recognition: Perspectives from the real world

In this paper, we analyze some of our real-world deployment of face recognition (FR) systems for various applications and discuss the gaps between expectations of the user and what the system can deliver. We evaluate some of the existing algorithms with modifications for applications including FR on wearable devices (like Google Glass) for improving social interactions, monitoring of elderly people in senior citizens centers, FR of children in child care centers and face matching between a scanned IC/passport face image and few live webcam images for automatic hotel/resort checkout or clearance. Each of these applications poses unique challenges and demands specific research components so as to adapt in the actual sites.