Information concerning someone at present is very important and difficult to get if there are a lotof data of people. One of techniques to get information concerning someone is from his or her photo,where from the photo of the face will be got someone's identity, which later will give the informationabout him or her. Many people have tried and succeeded to build a face recognition application programby various methods where each method has its superiority and deficiency. There is a fast method inrecognition face image but sacrificing its accuracy of recognition, so is the contrary. The purpose of thisresearch is to design and build a face recognition application program for computer by utilizing principalcomponent analysis which has artificail neural network bases. In this research, the writers made a facerecognition program from object of the form face image, side detection until we got the imagecharacteristics and came up with its recognition process with artificial neural network. The writers builtand tested the program in a laboratory. After a testing was conducted, we obtain the result of analysis that the program could recognize most faces tested. Several failures occurred because the program has adifficulty in recognizing similar faces.Keywords: Face recognition, Principal Component Analysis, Artificial Neural Network.Wikaria Gazali dan Lily.; Universitas Bina Nusantara
