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   Publications 
   Patents 
   Events 
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   Misc 


                        The Face Detection Homepage

                          by Dr. Robert Frischholz

   This page is focused on the task of detecting faces in arbitrary
          images.

          It is a tribute to Peter Kruizinga 's Face Recognition Homepage

          (which unfortunately has disappeared... thanks Peter for all
          the valuable information over so many years! Click on the above
          link to still browse the site using the archive of Wayback
          Machine.)

          Here is the successor of the Face Recognition Homepage
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          Preface: Face recognition is not so much about face recognition
          at all - it is much more about face detection! It is my (and
          many others') strong belief, that the prior step to face
          recognition, the accurate detection of human faces in arbitrary
          scenes, is the most important process involved. When faces
          could be located exactly in any scene, the recognition step
          afterwards would not be so complicated. That is why this page
          tries to gather all available information and material about
          the task of detecting faces!
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   Latest entry:   September 16th - New Online Demo added
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          Welcome Researchers around the world!

          This site tries to gather all useful information about finding
          faces. Since much research is going on in this area, the
          information is grouped into several categories, which are
          listed on the left side of the page. Please follow those
          navigation buttons to explore the contents of this site. A
          short description of the categories:

   Software Links to public domain or commercial software (SDK)
   Datasets Links to face image databases useful for face finding
   Links Links to research sites for face localization
   Publications Selected publications about facial detection
   Techniques Explanations and links to common principles of locating
   faces
   Patents Selection of online patent links for recognition and detection
   Events Important upcoming conferences (mainly biometric events)
   Misc Some miscellaneous possibly interesting stuff

          Please send all material to me via email to
          Robert.Frischholz@t-online.de.
          Or add comments to the face detection guest-book at my Face
          Detection Discussion-Group. Thank you!
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                    The Face Detection Homepage. By Robert W. Frischholz