Survey of 2D face recognition methods for robust identification by smart devices

The future generation of smart devices is envisioned to provide applications, services and smart environments that are sensitive to people's likings, personalized to their requirements, anticipatory of their behavior and responsive to their presence. A prerequisite for developing such attentive systems is the ability to recognize its user without requiring any user action, e.g. by face recognition from a stream of webcam images. Hence, recognition methods should be robust against changes in illumination, pose, facial expressions, etc. Therefore this report, surveys 2D face recognition methods with regard to applicability for robust identification using smart devices