Facial recognition technology

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I am not an electronics engineer and I need some advice on how to go about sourcing information to create a simple facial recognition system to add to an existing electro-mechanical device.

The device is a special kind of door handle currently using Bluetooth technology and a proximity sensor. I want to replace this using facial recognition i.e. a small camera and processing electronics etc that will run off 2 3.7v x 3300mAh batteries. These units must be very small to fit into the existing case.

Can anyone offer any suggestions please?

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You can’t do this on the Arduino, not enough memory or processing power.

There is no such thing as a simple facial recognition system it is a very complex thing to do. I think your only hope would be a Raspberry Pi, maybe a zero, running openCV, but it is a long shot.