Addressing the Problems of Detecting Faces with Neural Networks

The face is the most distinctive and widely used key to a person's identity. The area of face detection has attracted considerable attention in the advancement of human-machine interaction as it provides a natural and efficient way to communicate between humans and machines. The problem of facial parts in image sequences has become a popular area of research due to emerging applications in intelligent human-computer interface, surveillance systems, content-based image retrieval, video conferencing, financial transaction, forensic applications, pedestrian detection, image database management system and so on. This paper presents the results of an image based neural network face detection system which seeks to address the problem of detecting faces under gross variations.

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