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Face Detection

CENL-AI-WG edited this page Jan 12, 2022 · 9 revisions

Face Detection Statut

Detecting faces on images

Keywords: face detection

Approaches: convolutional neural networks (Single Shot Detector, SSD)

Tools: OpenCV/dnn, Google Cloud Vision, VGG Image Annotator


Annotation of visages on heritage material can be useful for information retrieval scenario, digital humanities research objectives, etc. Face detection can be regarded as a specific case of object detection.

Example

Goals

Annotation of visages on heritage material for information retrieval, quantitative analysis, visual studies, etc. Face recognition (identifying a person given a person's image) is not covered here.

Educational resources

This github describes two systems that identifies human faces in digital images.

Other resources