Robust and computationally efficient face detection using gaussian derivative features of higher orders

  • Authors:
  • John A. Ruiz-Hernandez;James L. Crowley;Claudine Combe;Augustin Lux;Matti Pietikäinen

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Machine Vision Research, University of Oulu, Finland;INRIA Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes Research Center, France;INRIA Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes Research Center, France;INRIA Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes Research Center, France;Center for Machine Vision Research, University of Oulu, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that a cascade of classifiers using Gaussian derivatives features up to fourth order can be used efficiently to improve the detection performance and robustness as well when compared with the popular approaches using Haar-like features or using Gaussian derivatives of lower order. We also present a new training method that structures the cascade detection so as to use the least expensive derivatives in the initial stages, so as to reduce the overall computational cost of detection. We demonstrate these improvements with experiments using two publicly available datasets (MIT+CMU and FDDB), in the face detection problem, in addition we perform several experiment to show the robustness of Gaussian derivatives when several transformations are presented in the image.