The technical objective of this project is to develop a prototype of a face recognition application in a cloud computing environment utilizing MBARK as the middleware. The application will have a client piece that will run on a mobile device such as a laptop and a server piece that will run on a higher-performance computing cluster. The specific objectives of this development project can be enumerated as follows: 1. Implement a distributed MBARK system that allows local functions, such as data capture and filtering, to pass data and control streams to/from remote server functions such as compute-intensive analysis and database matching. Commercial Applications: A Commercial Mobile Face Identification and Face Matching System may potentially result from this research. Mobile, cloud, and video capture enablement of MBARK will allow for proper interface to a commercially available Face Recognition SDK. This concept could be extended to other mobile biometric identification systems in the future. Cloud enablement means that complex and compute intensive processes can be easily supported. Future mobile biometric/security systems could also take advantage of the biometric diversity built into MBARK to commercialize systems that input data from a variety of sensor system.
