On the design of cascades of boosted ensembles for face detection

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 77, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 65-86

  Brubaker, S Charles ^a   Wu, Jianxin ^a   Sun, Jie ^a   Mullin, Matthew D ^a   Rehg, James M ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Cascade classifier; Face detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOOSTED ENSEMBLES; CASCADE CLASSIFIERS; RECYCLING METHOD;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 39749155821     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-007-0060-1     Document Type: Article

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