Multi-view face detection and pose estimation using a composite support vector machine across the view sphere

Support vector machines have shown great potential for learning classification functions that can be applied to object recognition. In this work, we extend SVMs to model the 2D appearance of human faces which undergo nonlinear change across the view sphere. The model enables simultaneous multi-view face detection and pose estimation at near-frame rate.

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