Small Face Detection with Deep Learning Approaches

This thesis considers small face detection in uncontrolled environments and develops robust deep learning approaches for this challenging problem. A novel multi-scale face detector is developed by integrating novel anchor design, efficient regression loss and additional detection layers. Several mul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuli, Sabrina Hoque
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86208
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Summary:This thesis considers small face detection in uncontrolled environments and develops robust deep learning approaches for this challenging problem. A novel multi-scale face detector is developed by integrating novel anchor design, efficient regression loss and additional detection layers. Several multi-scale dense convolutional networks are developed to boost up the detection of small faces. Experimental results on public face databases demonstrate that the proposed methods outperform the state-of-the-art methods (e.g. YOLOv3) for detection of small faces.