Yet Even Faster (YEF) real-time object detection. (20th February 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abramson, Yotam; Steux, Bruno; Ghorayeb, Hicham
• Is Part Of: International journal of intelligent systems technologies and applications. Volume 2:Number 2/3(2007)
• Page Start: 102
• Page End: 112
• Publication Date: 2007-02-20
• Subjects: computer vision -- face detection -- machine learning -- AdaBoost -- attentional cascade -- automatic learning -- real time -- object detection; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Intelligent control systems -- Periodicals; 006.3
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-8865

Abstract

We present an improvement to the object detection scheme of Viola and Jones (2004), using the example of face detection. We present a new kind of visual features that is based on sampling individual pixels within the examined sub-window, instead of comparing the sums of pixel values in rectangular regions. Our features are faster and do not demand the preparation of an integral image, nor variance-normalisation of each sub-window. The result is an improved system that detects faces in quarter-PAL images in only 9 milliseconds per image on a 2.4-GHz pentium computer.