Convolutional face finder: A neural architecture for fast and robust face detection

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1408-1423

  Garcia, Christophe ^a   Delakis, Manolis ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Convolutional networks; Face detection; Machine learning; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORKS; FACE DETECTION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 12844263684     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.97     Document Type: Article

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