January 2017
Beginner to intermediate
446 pages
8h 46m
English
Face detection refers to detecting the location of a face in a given image. This is often confused with face recognition, which is the process of identifying who the person is. A typical biometric system utilizes both face detection and face recognition to perform the task. It uses face detection to locate the face and then uses face recognition to identify the person. In this section, we will see how to automatically detect the location of a face in a live video and track it.
We will be using Haar cascades to detect faces in the video. Haar cascades, in this case, refer to cascade classifiers based on Haar features. Paul Viola and Michael Jones first came up with this object detection ...
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