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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2021.26.11.085

Rotation Invariant Face Detection Using HOG and Polar Coordinate Transform  

Jang, Kyung-Shik (Division of Creative Software Eng., Dong-eui University)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.26, no.11, 2021 , pp. 85-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a method for effectively detecting rotated face and rotation angle regardless of the rotation angle is proposed. Rotated face detection is a challenging task, due to the large variation in facial appearance. In the proposed polar coordinate transformation, the spatial information of the facial components is maintained regardless of the rotation angle, so there is no variation in facial appearance due to rotation. Accordingly, features such as HOG, which are used for frontal face detection without rotation but have rotation-sensitive characteristics, can be effectively used in detecting rotated face. Only the training data in the frontal face is needed. The HOG feature obtained from the polar coordinate transformed images is learned using SVM and rotated faces are detected. Experiments on 3600 rotated face images show a rotation angle detection rate of 97.94%. Furthermore, the positions and rotation angles of the rotated faces are accurately detected from images with a background including multiple rotated faces.
Keywords
Rotated face detection; Polar coordinate transform; Learning; HOG; SVM;
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