Face recognition based on Siamese convolutional neural network using Kivy framework

Abstract

Human face recognition is a vital biometric sign that has remained owing to its many levels of applications in society. This study is complex for free faces globally because human faces may vary significantly due to lighting, emotion, and facial stance. This study developed a mobile application for face recognition and implemented one of the convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, namely the Siamese CNN for face recognition. Siamese CNN can learn the similarity between two object representations. Siamese CNN is one of the most common techniques for one-shot learning tasks. Our participation in this study determined the efficiency of the Siamese CNN architecture with the enormous quantity of face data employed. The findings demonstrated that the suggested strategy is both practical and accurate. The method with augmentation produces the best results with a total data set of 9000 face images, a buffer size of 10000, and epochs of 5, producing the minimum loss of 0.002, recall of 0.996, the precision of 0.999, and F1-score of 0.672. The proposed method gets the best accuracy of 98% with test data. The Siamese CNN model is successfully implemented in Python, and a user interface and executables are built using the Kivy framework.