by Lisa Vaas on February 19, 2015

 

"On Tuesday, Sachin Farfade and Mohammad Saberian at Yahoo Labs in California and Li-Jia Li at Stanford University revealed a new approach to the problem of spotting faces at an angle - including upside down - even when partially occluded.

As the researchers describe in their paper, face detection has been of keen interest over the past few decades.

In 2001, two computer scientists had achieved a breakthrough: Paul Viola and Michael Jones created an algorithm that could pick out faces in an image in real time."

 

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