THE PROJECT

          This is a Facial Recognition Project that involved working with algorithms and a Convolutional Neural Network to run a facial recognition program on NVIDIA Jetson Nano in order to identify known, unknown, and masked individuals in real time. The basic identification part of the program works by locating landmarks on a person's face and comparing them to the database the device has.

          With multiple people coming in front of the camera with masks on, the device had a hard time to identify who each person was. To solve this issue, machine learning was used to teach  what a mask was. The machine learning allowed the program to put masked individuals in a separate category for further facial recognition.