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Quite recently the support vector machine (SVM) has shown a great potential in the area of automatic face detection. Generally the SVM based methods fall into two categories: component-based and whole face-based. However there exist some limitations to each category. In this paper we present a two-stage method using both SVM categories based on multiresolution wavelet decomposition (MWD). In the first stage, the whole face-based SVMs are used for coarse location of faces from small sub-images of low resolution. Then a set of component-based SVMs are applied to verify the extracted candidates in subsequent larger sub-images of higher resolutions. Experimental results show that this wavelet-SVM based method takes the advantage of the effectiveness of both categories of SVM-based methods and the computation efficiency.
To whom all correspondence should be addressed. This work was supported by Creative Research Initiatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea.
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Xi, D., Lee, SW. (2003). Face Detection and Facial Component Extraction by Wavelet Decomposition and Support Vector Machines. In: Kittler, J., Nixon, M.S. (eds) Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication. AVBPA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44887-X_24
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