This document presents an overview of face recognition using artificial neural networks. It discusses the basic concepts of face recognition, issues with existing systems, and proposes a new system using discrete cosine transform (DCT) for feature extraction and an artificial neural network with backpropagation for classification. DCT is used to extract illumination invariant features and reduce dimensionality. The neural network is trained on these features to recognize faces. Thresholding rules are also introduced to improve recognition performance. Real-time applications of face recognition like Microsoft's Project Natal are mentioned.