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1st March 2018 - Link Blog

BearID: Bear Face Detector. Comprehensive tutorial on building a computer vision system to identify faces of bears, using dlib and the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) technique. Bears!

Posted 1st March 2018 at 5:31 pm

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