Advanced applications on Jetson TX1

This section will describe the use of a Jetson TX1 embedded platform in the deployment of advanced computer vision applications, like face detection, eye detection, and background subtraction.

Face detection using Haar cascades

A Haar cascade uses rectangular features to detect an object. It uses rectangles of different sizes to calculate different line and edge features. The idea behind the Haar-like feature detection algorithm is to compute the difference between the sum of white pixels and the sum of black pixels inside the rectangle.

The main advantage of this method is the fast sum computation using the integral image approach. This makes the Haar cascade ideal for real-time object...