AUTOMATIC FACE RECOGNITION IN A HETEROGENEOUS POPULATION

Most face recognition results in the open literature have used Caucasi an faces to test their algorithms, while no special mention is made of the other population groups. The effect of a heterogeneous population on face recognition is therefore something of an unknown quantity. It is the aim of this paper to investigate the performance of a face rec ognition system, with emphasis on the effect of a heterogeneous popula tion. We have found that there is no significant difference in the per formance of the system on the different population groups. (C) 1998 El sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.