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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2012
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Wolf Kienzle, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/68 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06K 9/4614 (2013.01); G06K 9/6257 (2013.01);
Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards a face detection technology in which image data is classified as being a non-face image or a face image. Image data is processed into an image pyramid. Features, comprising pixel pairs of the image pyramid, are provided to stages of a cascading classifier to remove sub-window candidates that are classified as non-face sub-windows within each stage. The face detection technology continues with one or more subsequent stages to output a result as to whether the image contains a face.