Face Encoding

Introduction

Every face embodies plenty of distinguishable landmarks that constitute the facial features. These landmarks, also defined as nodal points, are measured during the face recognition process.

Among the measurements carried out are:

• The distance between the eyes
• The nose width
• The eye socket depth
• The cheekbone shape
• The jawline length

Once measured, a numerical code called face encoding, or a face print, is created to represent the face in question.