Till date many approaches have been proposed for recognizing the human faces under the different orientations. In this paper we propose a new measurement based approach to measure all the small measurements that can enable us to identify a person uniquely. Here we consider 4 facial photographs taken from correct positions, which provide us with the required information. The idea is to make the approach highly analytical which has little or no effect of variable factors like illumination, pose etc. With the presented idea of Most Informative Photograph (MIP), we consider a number of facial photographs 4 in our case and find the average of the values for comparison with the database. This in turn shall improve the efficiency by a greater amount.

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