Strategic Study of CAE >> 2008, Volume 10, Issue 7
A fast face detection algorithm using enhanced AdaBoostbased on walsh features
1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China ;
2. School of Information Engineer, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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Abstract
A fast face detection algorithm using enhanced AdaBoost based on Walsh features is proposed in this paper, and its training process is fast and works well under fewer non-face training samples.Firstly,the utility of Walsh features, instead of Harr-Like features can reduce the redundancy among features largely. Then, an enhanced double threshold AdaBoost algorithm is developed, where double threshold makes training process faster ; and in the process of training cascaded detector, the next classifier can be guided by the former classifier,which enhances the performance of the cascaded detector ;moreover,the adjustment to the threshold of each classifier can separate the training result of face and on-face as far as possible. Finally, the trained detector is tested on MIT + CMU test set, and experimental results show that its training speed, precision and detection time exceeds the corresponding method.
Keywords
Walsh features ; enhanced AdaBoost ; cascaded detector ; face detection
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