To ask how a human goes about face identification is probably an intractable question at present. But to ask how well and with what cues identification can occur is indeed a tractable question. So, too, is the matter of achieving effective machine identification and retrieval.

Goldstein, Harmon and Lesk, Proceedings of the IEEE, May 1971.

Lecture Materials

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Additional Exercises

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Datasets

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Software

Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, and Jiankang Deng (Eds.), Handbook of Face Recognition, Third Edition, Springer, 2024.

Additional References

David Anghelone, Cunjian Chen, Arun Ross, and Antitza Dantcheva, Beyond the Visible: A Survey on Cross-Spectral Face Recognition, Neurocomputing 611, 2025.