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by liviu- 3719 days ago
> I quickly discovered that such a system was overkill for me, and resorted to using an open source implementation of a simpler algorithm [1].

Maybe worth pointing out that the "simpler algorithm" they used seems to be a cascading ensemble of adaptive boosting algorithms, technique similar to the ones used on Kaggle to win the big prizes. Maybe simpler than some neural nets in some ways, but nothing close to the simplicity of nearest neighbour search.

[1] http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/objdetect/cascade_c...