Viola and Jones: rapid object detection with a boosted cascade

What changed

Combined efficient summed-area features, AdaBoost selection, and cascade classification.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author CVPR 2001 paper. It does not absorb AdaBoost, summed-area tables, later journal extensions, all face-detection datasets or performance beyond the reported implementation and evaluation.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author CVPR 2001 paper. It does not absorb AdaBoost, summed-area tables, later journal extensions, all face-detection datasets or performance beyond the reported implementation and evaluation.

Contributors

• Paul A. Viola · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Michael J. Jones · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• IEEE DOI for boosted-cascade detection

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