Enhancing Facial Identification Systems with YOLOv8: A Cutting-Edge Approach

Huda S. Mithkhal; Ahmed H Y Al-Noori; Emad Tariq Al-Shiekhly

doi:10.29194/NJES.27030351

Authors

Huda S. Mithkhal Department of Computer Engineering, University of Al-Nahrain, Baghdad-Iraq.
Ahmed H Y Al-Noori Department of Computer Engineering, University of Al-Nahrain, Baghdad-Iraq.
Emad Tariq Al-Shiekhly College of Business Administration, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29194/NJES.27030351

Keywords:

Face-Identification, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, You Only Look Once (YOLO)

Abstract

Face recognition and identification have recently become the most widely employed biometric authentication technologies, especially for access to persons and other security purposes. It represents one of the most significant pattern recognition technologies that uses characteristics included in facial images or videos to detect the identity of individuals. However, most of the traditional facial algorithms have faced limitations in identification and verification accuracy.

As a result, this paper presents a sophisticated system for face identification adopting a novel algorithm of deep learning, namely, You Only Look Once version 8 (YOLOv8). This system can detect the face identity of different individuals with different positions with high accuracy. The YOLOv8 model has been trained for several target face images classified as training and validation images of 1190 and 255, respectively. The experimental results show a significant improvement in face identification accuracy of 99% of mean average precision, which outperforms many state-of-the-art face identification techniques.

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