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The International Journal of Multimedia Its Applications (IJMA) Vol.4, No.4, August 2012 Comparison of face Recognition Algorithms on Dummy Faces Aruni Singh, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Shrikant Tiwari Department of Computer Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi-India arunisingh@ sks.cse@itbhu.ac.in shrikant.rs.cse@itbhu.ac.in ABSTRACT In the age of rising crime face recognition is enormously important in the contexts of computer vision, psychology, surveillance, fraud detection, pattern recognition, neural network, content based video processing, etc. Face is a non intrusive strong biometrics for identification and hence criminals always try to hide their facial organs by different artificial means such as plastic surgery, disguise and dummy. The availability of a comprehensive face database is crucial to test the performance of these face recognition algorithms. However, while existing publicly-available face databases contain face images with a wide variety of poses, illumination, gestures and face occlusions but there is no dummy face database is available in public domain. The contributions of this research paper are: i) Preparation of dummy face database of 110 subjects ii) Comparison of some texture based, feature based and holistic face recognition algorithms on that dummy face database, iii) Critical analysis of these types of algorithms on dummy face database. KEYWORDS Face recognition, dummy face, dummy face database and biometrics. 1. INTRODUCTION Over a last decade face recognition has become increasingly important in the direction of computer vision, pattern recognition, surveillance, fraud detection, psychology, neural network, content based video processing, etc. Rapid development of face recognition is due to combination of the factors such as active development of algorithms, availability of large facial database and method of evaluating the performance of recogni