face recognition software framework was developed to lay the foundation for a futurevideo annotation

system. The framework provides a unied and extensible interface to mul-tiple existing implementations
of face detection and recognition algorithms from OpenCVand Wawo SDK. The framework supports face
detection with cascade classication usingHaar-like features, and face recognition with Eigenfaces,
Fisherfaces, local binary patternhistograms, the Wawo algorithm and an ensemble method combining
the output of thefour algorithms. An extension to the cascade face detector was developed that covers
yawrotations. CAMSHIFT object tracking was combined with an arbitrary face recognitionalgorithm to
enhance face recognition in video. The algorithms in the framework and theextensions were evaluated
on several dierent test databases with dierent properties interms of illumination, pose, obstacles,
background clutter and imaging conditions. The re-sults of the evaluation show that the algorithmic
extensions provide improved performanceover the basic algorithms under certain conditions.