Viability of Viola-Jones method for the problem of image classification
Alexander V. Sheshkus, Daniil P. Matalov, Vladimir V. Arlazarov, Dmitry Nikolaev · 2019
In this paper we study combination of Viola-Jones classifier with deep convolutional neural network as an approach to the problem of object detection and classification. It is well known that Viola-Jones detectors are fast and accurate in detection of vast variety of different objects. On the other hand, methods based on neural network usage demonstrate high accuracy in the problems of image classification. The main goal of this paper is to study viability of Viola-Jones classifier in problem of image classification. The first part of both algorithms is the same: we will use Viola-Jones classifier to find object bounding rectangle in the image. The second part of the algorithms is different: we will compare usage of Viola-Jones classifier with convolutional neural network-based classifier. We will provide speed and accuracy comparison between these two algorithms.