Breaking Down Facial Recognition: The Viola-Jones Algorithm

Only recently have our smartphones been able to use a human face as a password to unlock the device. Just like fingerprints, faces are unique with millions of tiny features that differentiate one from the other. It may not always be obvious to us humans, but machines synthesize and evaluate every small piece of data, leading to more objective accuracy.

Like other data-based models, Facial Detection is not 100% perfect.
Although, it has reached a stage where it is commercially acceptable in our daily lives. Embedded in our…