Effective face detection using a small quantity of training data

  • Authors:
  • Byung-Du Kang;Jong-Ho Kim;Chi-Young Seong;Sang-Kyun Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea

  • Venue:
  • PSIVT'06 Proceedings of the First Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Image and Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an effective and real-time face detection method based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs). We extract simple Haar-like features from training images that consist of face and non-face images, reinterpret the features with PCA, and select useful ones from the large number of extracted features. With the selected features, we construct a face detector using an SVM appropriate for binary classification. The face detector is not affected by the size of a training dataset in a significant way, so that it works well with a small quantity of training data. It also shows a sufficiently fast detection speed for it to be practical for real-time face detection.