A Detection Technique for Degraded Face Images

  • Authors:
  • Shinji Hayashi;Osamu Hasegawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology;PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes a face detection technique that enables detection of extremely small faces such as 6 脳 6 pixel. This is the first approach to detect very low-resolution faces in the field of face detection. First, we use a conventional AdaBoost-based face detector to show that the face detection rate falls to 39% from 88% as face resolution decreases from 24 脳 24 pixels to 6 脳 6 pixels. Second, we propose a new face detection method comprising four techniques. It improves the face detection rate from 39% to 73% for 6 脳 6 pixel faces of the MIT+CMU frontal face test set. Finally, we applied our method to real world data. By merging results of some frames and judging using a threshold, we show that our method is effective for processing real world data.