Eigenfaces, for Facial Recognition

1 · Jeremy Kun · July 27, 2011, 6:41 p.m.
Summary
This post assumes familiarity with the terminology and notation of linear algebra, particularly inner product spaces. Fortunately, we have both a beginner’s primer on linear algebra and a follow-up primer on inner products. The Quest We are on a quest to write a program which recognizes images of faces. The general algorithm should be as follows. Get a bunch of sample images of people we want to recognize. Train our recognition algorithm on those samples....