Image Sketch Based Criminal Face Recognition Using Content Based Image Retrieval

Purpose: Face recognition is a geometric space recording activity that allows it to be used to distinguish the features of a face. Therefore, facial recognition can be used to identify ID cards, ATM card PINs, search for one’s committed crimes, terrorists, and other criminals whose faces were not caught by Close-Circuit Television (CCTV). Based on the face image database and by applying the Content-Base Image Retrieval method (CBIR), committed crimes can be recognized on his face. Moreover, the image segmentation technique was carried out before CBIR was applied. This work tried to recognize an individual who committed crimes based on his or her face by using sketch facial images as a query. Methods: We used an image sketch as a querybecause CCTV could not have caught the face image. The research used no less than 1,000 facial images were carried out, both normal as well asabnormal faces (with obstacles). Findings:Experiments demonstrated good enough in terms of precision and recall, which are 0,8 and 0,3 respectively, which is better than at least two previous works.The work demonstrates a precision of 80% which means retrieval of effectiveness is good enough. The 75 queries were carried out in this work to compute the precision and recall of image retrieval. Novelty: Most face recognition researchers using CBIR employed an image as a query. Furthermore, previous work still rarely applied image segmentation as well as CBIR.