  Detection and recognition of the facial images of people is an intricate
problem which has garnered much attention during recent years due to its ever
increasing applications in numerous fields. It continues to pose a challenge in
finding a robust solution to it. Its scope extends to catering the security,
commercial and law enforcement applications. Research for moreover a decade on
this subject has brought about remarkable development with the modus operandi
like human computer interaction, biometric analysis and content based coding of
images, videos and surveillance. A trivial task for brain but cumbersome to be
imitated artificially. The commonalities in faces does pose a problem on
various grounds but features such as skin color, gender differentiate a person
from the other. In this paper the facial detection has been carried out using
Viola-Jones algorithm and recognition of face has been done using Back
Propagation Neural Network (BPNN).
