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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2007.11.6.1129

A Fast Method for Face Detection Based on PCA and SVM  

Xia, Chun-Lei (경상대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Shin, Hyeon-Gab (경상대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Park, Myeong-Chul (경상대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Ha, Seok-Wun (경상대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Abstract
Human face detection technique plays an important role in computer vision area. It has lots of applications such as face recognition, video surveillance, human computer interface, face image database management, and querying image databases. In this paper, a fast face detection approach using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) is proposed based on the previous study on face detection technique. In the proposed detection system, firstly it filter the face potential area using statistical feature which is generated by analyzing the local histogram distribution the detection process is speeded up by eliminating most of the non-face area in this step. In the next step, PCA feature vectors are generated, and then detect whether there are faces present in the test image using SVM classifier. Finally, store the detection results and output the results on the test image. The test images in this paper are from CMU face database. The face and non-face samples are selected from the MIT data set. The experimental results indicate the proposed method has good performance for face detection.
Keywords
SVM; PCA; histogram distribution; face potential area;
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