Cascaded Facial Detection Algorithms To Improve Recognition

The desire to be able to use computer programs to recognize certain biometric qualities of people have been desired by several different types of organizations. One of these qualities worked on and has achieved moderate success is facial detection and recognition. Being able to use computers to determine where and who a face is has generated several different algorithms to solve this problem with different benefits and drawbacks. At the backbone of each algorithm is the desire for it to be quick and accurate. By cascading face detection algorithms, accuracy can be improved but runtime will subsequently be increased. Neural networks, once trained, have the ability to quickly categorize objects and assign them identifiers. Combining cascaded face detectors and neural networks, a face in an image can be detected and recognized. In this paper, three different types of facial detection algorithms are combined in various configurations to test the accuracy of face detection at the cost of runtime. By feeding these faces into a convolution neural network, we can begin identifying who the person is