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# Face Recognition

Face Recognition is one of the many uses of deep neural networks.

It refers to the recognition of a person's face.

Face Recognition is different from face verification. In face verification, we input an image and the corresponding person's name/ID and verify if the image is of that person or not.

Face Recognition is, however, a much more complex task. Our input is an image. We have a database of k persons and we aim to identify the name/ID of the person in the image.

In this section, we discuss a few concepts relevant to face recognition.