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Traditional Face Detection With Python: Overview

Austin Cepalia
Traditional Face Detection With Python Austin Cepalia 01:09
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Computer vision is an exciting and growing field. There are tons of interesting problems to solve! One of them is face detection: the ability of a computer to recognize that a photograph contains a human face, and tell you where it is located. In this course, you’ll learn about face detection with Python.

To detect any object in an image, it is necessary to understand how images are represented inside a computer, and how that object differs visually from any other object.

Once that is done, the process of scanning an image and looking for those visual cues needs to be automated and optimized. All these steps come together to form a fast and reliable computer vision algorithm.

In this course, you’ll learn:

  • What face detection is
  • How computers understand features in images
  • How to quickly analyze many different features to reach a decision
  • How to use a minimal Python solution for detecting human faces in images

00:00 Hi! This is Austin Cepalia with realpython.com, and in this course, we’re going to learn how to perform traditional face detection within Python.

00:09 There are tons of exciting problems to solve in computer vision, one of them being face detection. Generally speaking, face detection is the ability for a computer to recognize that an image has a face in it and tell you where it’s located. In order to understand face detection, we’ll first learn about how images are represented in computer memory.

00:30 Then, we’ll see how faces are detected using visual clues. Our program will scan images looking for these visual clues, a process that needs to be automated and optimized to work well.

00:42 All of these steps come together to form a fast and reliable computer vision algorithm called the Viola-Jones object detection framework.

00:52 In this course, you’ll learn how computers understand features and images, how computers quickly analyze many different features to reach a decision, and how to use a minimal Python solution to detect human faces within images. Let’s get started.

asaad7salem on May 2, 2020

I can guess that it is not a machine learning algorithm

pnkj-pthk on July 23, 2020

Can I get any certificate after completing this course.??

Dan Bader RP Team on July 23, 2020

Yep, you’ll get a completion certificate for any course you complete on Real Python! Here’s more info on how to access your certificates. Happy Pythoning!

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