Hey I am looking to design an algorithm in Matlab which is able to highlight faces in an image. I have posted this in the programming forum but not many people post there and so I have had little success. Basically I want to use an approach known as Eigenfaces, I am a little stuck and was wondering if anyone here has any experience?
face detection using matlab
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The only idea I have is that if you took a very general/bland eigenface you could pass a moving window over the image and resolve the window in the direction of the eigenface. I imagine it would be quite easy to detect whether the window contained a face if it was the correct size, getting the window in the right part would be the trick.
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I saw someone doing this in college today, wish I could help.
Another thread? 
If you want to know more about Eigenfaces, check out the papers at the bottom of the Wiki entry, especially Turk & Pentland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
If you want to know more about Eigenfaces, check out the papers at the bottom of the Wiki entry, especially Turk & Pentland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
Another thread?
If you want to know more about Eigenfaces, check out the papers at the bottom of the Wiki entry, especially Turk & Pentland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
hehe. I have read through lots of papers etc but the problem is I am not experienced in this area and basically don't understand anything in the papers. I want to see examples of actual working code so I can understand how it works. I get lost at the shear amount of mathematics involved in some of those papers.
You expect code implementing Eigenfaces to be simple?
The maths is still there, just more jumbled. Understanding a paper really is the way forward.
Searching for "Eigenfaces matlab" brings up things like this:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sis26/Eigenface Tutorial.htm
which might make it easier to understand, but it's no good just having an implementation and not knowing what on earth is going on.
http://utenti.lycos.it/matlab/face.htm
That guy is selling his implementation if you want it that bad.
The maths is still there, just more jumbled. Understanding a paper really is the way forward.
Searching for "Eigenfaces matlab" brings up things like this:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sis26/Eigenface Tutorial.htm
which might make it easier to understand, but it's no good just having an implementation and not knowing what on earth is going on.
http://utenti.lycos.it/matlab/face.htm
That guy is selling his implementation if you want it that bad.
You could try reading this tutorial, it is as simple as it can be made.
http://rapidshare.com/files/95442850/PCAforpedestrians.ppt.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/95442850/PCAforpedestrians.ppt.html
Do your own homework
It is not homework and I am doing it on my own, now sit down.
Difficult in that a final year project could be drawn from it at least, yes
Yeah I know lol I am only in my second year so this is a real meaty project.
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Wow seems brutal I thought my coursework was bad enough.
Put your handbag away, I actually did this at uni fwiw.
Facial detection as a final project? Or more specific element? I'm doing my Masters project on feature recognition in 3d face point clouds
Can you send me som info or help me in any way, I forgot to mention I am doing a degree in Mechanical Engineering so have no idea how this relates at all to my degree.
Its a required course at mine even for the automotive people for whatever reason. I did it a few years ago so let me fish it out.