An automated David laser scanner for facial acquisition

“Face recognition has become one of the most active research fields in computer vision due to increasing demands in commercial and law enforcement applications.” There has been much research on two dimensional face recognition, simply because the acquisition of 2D faces is easy and widely used in practice. This research trend is gradually shifting towards the 3D research plane, since it is promising to overcome the difficulties and limitations associated with face recognition in 2D space. Thus the need for 3D face acquisition rises.