Our first case study will be to predict the labels for image data with a popular dataset called the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset from the scikit-learn library. The dataset is called the Olivetti Face dataset and it comprises pictures of famous people's faces, with appropriate labels. Our task is that of facial recognition, a supervised machine learning model that is able to predict the name of the person given an image of their face.
Case study 1 - facial recognition
Applications of facial recognition
Image processing and facial recognition are far-reaching. The ability to quickly discern people's faces from a crowd of people in video/images is vital for physical security as well as for giant social media...
