A Face Recognition System Based on Local Binary Patterns and Support Vector Machine for Home Security Service Robot

Abstract

In this paper, we present a real-time face recognition system for home security service robot which can be applied to recognize the person's face in front and give a warning when the identity of the person is a stranger. Considering the complexity of the actual situation, there might be some errors causing by the following factors like the angle, the size, the environment and the illumination of the human face, which can hardly be avoided. Our system is designed to reduce and eliminate the influence of the factors above. This article first used Local Binary Patterns (LBP) to detect face and cut out the face region. Then, based on the collected and pretreated face database, the target face could be recognized utilizing Support Vector Machine (SVM). However, the given face database are always irregular in size, position of the face area, scale and some other factors. The proposed face recognition system has been tested in practical application for home security service robot. The results indicate that our face recognition system is effective and real-time. It works well in multi-face recognition and stranger identification, which meet the demand of robot.