Invariant Model Combining Geometry and Appearance for Facial Detection and Gender Classification From Arbitrary Viewpoints

In this chapter, we tackle in the same process the problems of face detection and gender classification, where the faces present a wide range of the intra-class appearance are taken from arbitrary viewpoints. We try to develop complete probabilistic model to represent and learn appearance of facial objects in both shape and geometry with respect to a landmark in the image, and then to be able to predict presence and position of the appearance of the studied object class in new scene. After have predicted the facial appearance and the geometry of invariants, geometric hierarchical clustering combines different prediction of positions of face invariant. Then, the algorithm of cluster selection with a best appearance localizes faces in the image. Using a probabilistic classification, each facial feature retained in the detection step will be weighted by a probability to be male or female. This set of features contributes to determine the gender associated to a detected face. This model has a good performance in presence of viewpoint changes and a large appearance variability of faces. Invariant Model Combining Geometry and Appearance for Facial Detection and Gender Classification From Arbitrary Viewpoints

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