The Viola-Jones object detection framework is the first object detection framework to provide competitive object detection rates in real-time proposed in 2001 by Paul Viola and Michael Jones. Although it can be trained to detect a variety of object classes, it was motivated primarily by the problem of face detection.
The implementation of this code has used Viola and Jones' original publication, the OpenCV Library and the Marilena Project as reference. OpenCV is released under a BSD license, it is free for both academic and commercial use. Please be aware that some particular versions of the Haar object detection framework are patented by Viola and Jones and may be subject to restrictions for use in commercial applications. The code has been implemented with full support for tilted Haar features from the ground up.
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