Eye localization for face recognition
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications, Volume 40 (2006) no. 2, pp. 123-139.

We present a novel eye localization method which can be used in face recognition applications. It is based on two SVM classifiers which localize the eyes at different resolution levels exploiting the Haar wavelet representation of the images. We present an extensive analysis of its performance on images of very different public databases, showing very good results.

DOI: 10.1051/ita:2006006
Classification: 68T10, 68T45
Keywords: eye localization, face recognition, Haar wavelets, support vector machines
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Campadelli, Paola; Lanzarotti, Raffaella; Lipori, Giuseppe. Eye localization for face recognition. RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications, Volume 40 (2006) no. 2, pp. 123-139. doi : 10.1051/ita:2006006. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/ita:2006006/

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