Media Release

Mangaluru, Aug 21: Krithika, Anisha D Kulal, Navyashree and Roshan Sunaina M, students of Information Science & Engineering Department at Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, here recently exhibited a project titled 'Pose invariant key point based face recognition system' at Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Davangere.

The project was adjudged 'Best Project Of The Year' at the seminar/exhibition organized by Karnataka State Council for Science & Technology (KSCST).

33 teams from various Engineering colleges across Karnataka participated in the final round of the competition.

The project developed an automated face recognition system which could recognize human faces irrespective of pose and illumination variations.

The system used key point (Weber magnitude and orientation) based feature extraction method.

The project was supervised by Prof Rajesh D S, department of Computer Science & Engineering and Swathi, department of Information Science & Engineering and co-ordinated by Atmaranjan K, department of Information Science & Engineering.

SIT management, principal DrpSrinivasa Mayya D, along with the HOD of ISE department Prof Janardhana Bhat K, wholeheartedly congratulated the team on their wonderful achievement.