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Human detection corresponds to the process of detecting human bodies, either globally or as distinct human body parts. There are numerous challenges that should be considered through the detection process. They are mostly associated with the monitoring conditions and the variability of poses and orientations that the human body can adopt. Thus, person detection can be regarded as a more general problem than human localization in the sense that the number of persons is not known a-priori. The response of an efficient person detector provides a bounding polygon or box at the location of human occurrence.
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The rapidly expanding research in face processing and human body analysis is based on the premise that information about a user’s identity, state, and intent can be extracted from multimedia sources. In particular, face detection and analysis corresponds to a well-known problem which has been thoroughly considered...
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Kapsalas, P., Avrithis, Y. (2008). Person Detection in Images and Video. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_60
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