A unified learning framework for object detection and classification using nested cascades of boosted classifiers

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 85-103

  Verschae, Rodrigo ^a   Ruiz Del Solar, Javier ^a   Correa, Mauricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Boosting; Eyes detection; Face detection; Nested cascade classifiers; Object detection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EYES DETECTION; FACE DATABASES; OBJECT DETECTION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 38849151657     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-007-0084-0     Document Type: Article

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