Face Recognition Using Neural Networks
by jim susinno (@cs.jhu.edu)
maneesh dewan

this project aims to use the neural net framework and backpropagation
to learn to detect and recognize frontal, upright images of human faces.
Input images are taken from the at&t database, and can be passed to the learning application
 by a directory name.  The system will iterate recursively through all images given in the 
input directory and train its internal network based on the assumption that all images 
are of faces.

Negative training examples are necessary to prevent mis-applied learning of patterns by 
the network, and can be specified on the command line along with positive training instances 
and test(validation) instances..

Downloads:
ml_final_proj-0.2.8.tar.gz - source tarball
data-facepgm.tar.gz - our custom dataset of PGMs largely gathered from outside sources
data-facepgm-new.tar.gz - our custom dataset of PGMs largely gathered from outside sources(newer version)

project writeup - ASCII .txt format
the included README file - ASCII .txt format - includes Changelog
neuralnet.h - header file indicating neural net API

screenshot - .jpg format




Resources: here is a listing of neural network sites on the web

the neural network handbook link is http://www.iop.org/Books/CIL/HNC/html/hnc_toc.htm
the multi-layer perceptron on the following link talks abt backprop
http://www.iop.org/Books/CIL/HNC/html/hnc_tocc.htm

Link Pages:
Index of Freeware and Shareware Tools for Neural Networks
Neural Net web pages
Neural Net Bookmarks

Project/Library Pages, etc.
NNUGA - Neural Network Using Genetic Algorithms
libneural home page
Jet's Neural Architecture
Neural Networks at your Fingertips - c code for letter recognition and more
Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator - educational research nn library
Spike and neuralog
poplog rpm page
Interactive Visualizer and Image Classifier for Satellites (IVICS)
Alice Smith's homepage - PittNet - neural net info, code seems missing

PDP++ Home Page
Mathtools.net - matlab stuff
busted link - crashes phoenix on my linux box

Computer vision libraries:
RAVL - recognition and vision library
Computer Vision ToolKit
VisionEgg
Gandalf - vision and numerical library

Face Image Datasets:
AT&T Face Database - preview
Face Detection Home Page
Face Recognition Home Page - lotsa good stuff
CMU Image Database - faces
Indiana - Picons Archive

More good info:
helpful negative training info
Face Detection Software Homepage