What Is Facial Recognition and How Does It Work?
Facial recognition is a biometric identification technology that analyzes the unique features of the human face to authenticate or identify individuals. The process starts with face detection in an image or video stream, followed by the extraction of embeddings: numerical vectors that represent facial geometry with high fidelity. These embeddings are compared against a database using two modes: 1:1 verification, which confirms whether a person is who they claim to be, and 1:N identification, which searches for an individual across multiple records. At AISDC we implement this pipeline using YOLOv8n-face for detection and MobileFaceNet for embedding generation, resulting in a facial recognition system that is robust, fast, and suited for real-world business environments.
