Can We Boost the Power of the Viola-Jones Face Detector Using Pre-processing? An Empirical Study

no code implementations • 22 Sep 2017 • Mahmoud Afifi, Marwa Nasser, Mostafa Korashy, Katherine Rohde, Aly Abdelrahim

In this paper, we study the influence of a set of blind pre-processing methods on the face detection rate using the Viola-Jones algorithm.

Deblurring Face Detection

Can We See Photosynthesis? Magnifying the Tiny Color Changes of Plant Green Leaves Using Eulerian Video Magnification

no code implementations • 12 Jun 2017 • Islam A. T. F. Taj-Eddin, Mahmoud Afifi, Mostafa Korashy, Ali H. Ahmed, Ng Yoke Cheng, Evelyng Hernandez, Salma M. Abdel-latif

In this paper, we aim to detect the degree of animation of plants based on the magnification of the small color changes in the plant's green leaves using the Eulerian video magnification.