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Can you find a face in a HEVC bitstream?

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-02-27 v2

Abstract

Finding faces in images is one of the most important tasks in computer vision, with applications in biometrics, surveillance, human-computer interaction, and other areas. In our earlier work, we demonstrated that it is possible to tell whether or not an image contains a face by only examining the HEVC syntax, without fully reconstructing the image. In the present work we move further in this direction by showing how to localize faces in HEVC-coded images, without full reconstruction. We also demonstrate the benefits that such approach can have in privacy-friendly face localization.

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@article{arxiv.1710.10736,
  title  = {Can you find a face in a HEVC bitstream?},
  author = {Saeed Ranjbar Alvar and Hyomin Choi and Ivan V. Bajic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10736},
  year   = {2018}
}
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