Human face detection in video using edge projections

In this paper, a human face detection algorithm in images and video is presented. After determining possible face candidate regions using colour information, each region is filtered by a high-pass filter of a wavelet transform. In this way, edges of the region are highlighted, and a caricature-like representation of candidate regions is obtained. Horizontal, vertical, filter-like and circular projections of the region are used as feature signals in support vector machine (SVM) based classifiers. It turns out that our feature extraction method provides good detection rates with SVM based classifiers.

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