Improvement of Face Detection Method using Haar-Like Features

Recently, utilization of the face information for human detection becomes the focus of attention in many situations. In any case, object detection system needs a fast and high-accuracy ability. Viola et al. introduced a rapid object detection system using a Haar-Like features based on rectangle features [1]. These features are so simple that they can apply everything to detection. However, these features take a large computational cost to detect complex objects. This paper has proposed adaptive Haar-Like features which are novel sets of features using target's texture. Experimental result showed that our method had less computational cost and higher performance than these of the conventional method.