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Face detection refers to the detection of face instances in an image.
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Face detection is a fundamental step to all facial analysis algorithms, including face alignment, face parsing, and face recognition. Given an arbitrary image, the goal of face detection is to determine the presence of faces in the image and, if present, return the location and extent of each face in an image.
As in object detection, early work in face detection took a sliding window paradigm, in which a classifier is applied on a dense image grid. Following this paradigm, early progress in face detection is closely related to the combined use of handcrafted features and classifiers, e.g., Haar-like features with boosting [1, 2], Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) with Support Vector Machine (SVM) [3, 4], and multiple channel features with boosting [5]. Most early detectors perform well in constrained scenarios where near frontal...
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Loy, C.C. (2020). Face Detection. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_798-1
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