Abstract

BALARINI, Juan Pablo. Facial Recognition Using Neural Networks over GPGPU. CLEIej [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.3, pp.6-6. ISSN 0717-5000.

This article introduces a parallel neural network approach implemented over Graphic Processing Units (GPU) to solve a facial recognition problem, which consists in deciding where the face of a person in a certain image is pointing. The proposed method uses the parallel capabilities of GPU in order to train and evaluate a neural network used to solve the abovementioned problem. The experimental evaluation demonstrates that a significant reduction on computing times can be obtained allowing solving large instances in reasonable time. Speedup greater than 8 is achieved when contrasted with a sequential implementation and classification rate superior to 85 % is also obtained.

Keywords : Face recognition; Neural Networks; Parallel Computing; GPGPU.

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