December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
18h 18m
English
Face detection is similar to the object detection, that we discussed in Chapter 23, Object Detection. The locations of the faces have to be detected from the image. A dataset called Face Detection Data Set and Benchmark (FDDB) can be downloaded from http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/fddb/. It has 2,845 images with 5,171 faces. Another dataset called wider face can be downloaded from http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/WIDERFace/proposed by Yang et al. It has 32,203 images with 393,703 faces. Here is a sample of images from the wider face dataset:

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