Weakly trained dual features extraction based detector for frontal face detection

This paper investigates the inconvenience of using huge number of features, enormous training dataset and lengthy training session to achieve a good performance frontal face detector. The proposed face detector is based on a novel idea which proposes using joint decision from two parallel different features trained detectors, one detector is trained with Local Binary Patterns (LBP) features and the other with Haar-like features. Both detectors are trained with few features using not a huge face/non-face dataset and within relatively short period of time. Hence, both detectors agree on the face image but seldom agree on the non-face image. The result is significantly improved using a multi-detections merging algorithm using simple clustering method. The robustness of the detector is examined once using a face/non-face dataset and compared to Lienhart frontal face detector, and secondly using a real-life sequence.