Neural Network-Based Face Detection - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Neural Network-Based Face Detection

Portrait of Neural Network-Based Face Detection
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A retinally connected neural network examines small windows of an image, and decides whether each window contains a face. The system arbitrates between multiple networks to improve performance over a single network. We use a bootstrap algorithm for training the networks, which adds false detections into the training set as training progresses. This eliminates the difficult task of manually selecting non-face training examples, which must be chosen to span the entire space of non-face images. Comparisons with other state-of-the-art face detection systems are presented; our system has better performance in terms of detection and false-positive rates.

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  • Shumeet Baluja
  • Henry Rowley