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The paper is devoted to the problem of face detection in thermal imagery. Its aim was to investigate several contemporary general-purpose object detectors known to be accurate when working in visible lighting conditions. Employed classifiers are based on AdaBoost learning method with three types of low-level descriptors, namely Haar–like features, Histogram of Oriented Gradients, and Local Binary Patterns. Additionally, the performance of recently proposed Max-Margin Object-Detection Algorithm joint with HOG feature extractor and Deep Neural Network-based approach have been investigated. Performed experiments, on images taken in controlled and uncontrolled conditions, gathered in our own benchmark database and in a few other databases support final observations and conclusions.
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Forczmański, P. (2018). Performance Evaluation of Selected Thermal Imaging-Based Human Face Detectors. In: Kurzynski, M., Wozniak, M., Burduk, R. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES 2017. CORES 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 578. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59162-9_18
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