FACIAL RECOGNITION OF MISSING PERSONS THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Reconhecimento facial de pessoas desaparecidas através de aprendizado de máquina e inteligência artificial)

The disappearance of people is a social problem of great magnitude, causing immeasurable suffering to the families and friends of missing individuals. Faced with this problem, this Course Conclusion Paper (TCC) proposes the development of the "SeekingLost" platform, an innovative tool that uses facial recognition to assist in the search for missing people. The SeekingLost platform will allow users to register photos of missing people, whether they are family, friends or acquaintances. The images will then be compared with a database of faces. The platform, equipped with a facial recognition model, calculates a percentage chance that the missing person matches the person present in the provided image.