AI engineering glossary · Computer vision
What is face detection?
Face detection: Finding the location of faces in an image, giving each a bounding box, without deciding whose face it is. It is used for camera autofocus and as a first step in face recognition.
Face detection: an example
A phone camera draws a square around each face in a group photo.
Related terms
- Face recognition
- Object detection
- Keypoint detection
More Computer vision terms
- Fast R-CNN
- Faster R-CNN
- Feature descriptor
- Feature detection
- Feature map
- Feature matching
- Feature pyramid network
- Fine-tuning
Where you learn it
Face detection is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.