A Real Time Face Classification and Counting System

This paper introduces a face detection, classification and counting system that is robust and works in real-time. It tracks multiple people, which is useful for face counting. The classification problem is defined as differentiating and then classifying the front of a face into Asian or non-Asian categories. The first step, is principal component analysis (PCA) for feature generation and independent component analysis (ICA) for feature extraction. Then, we employ support vector machine (SVM) for the training process and combine different SVM classifiers to create new classifiers, which improves the classification rate. Based on this, we can count the number of Asians and non-Asians. Experiments show that our system achieves a classification rate of 82.5% based on a database containing 750 face images from FERET.

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