FaceHash: Face Detection and Robust Hashing

In this paper, we introduce a concept to counter the current weakness of robust hashing with respect to cropping. We combine face detectors and robust hashing. By doing so, the detected faces become a subarea of the overall image which always can be found as long as cropping of the image does not remove the faces. As the face detection is prone to a drift effect altering size and position of the detected face, further mechanisms are needed for robust hashing. We show how face segmentation utilizing blob algorithms can be used to implement a face-based cropping robust hash algorithm.