Small Noisy and Perspective Face Detection using Deformable Symmetric Gabor Wavelet Network

Face detection and tracking in low resolution image is not a trivial task due to the limitation in the appearance features for face characterization. Moreover, facial expression gives additional distortion on this small and noisy face. In this paper, we propose deformable symmetric Gabor wavelet network face model for face detection in low resolution image. Our model optimizes the rotation, translation, dilation, perspective and partial deformation amount of the face model with symmetry constraints. Symmetry constraints help our model to be more robust to noise and distortion. Experimental results on our low resolution face image dataset and videos show promising face detection and tracking results under various challenging conditions.