/the-haarlike-show

An interactive visualization of Haar-like feature scaling

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the-haarlike-show

On modern hardware, computing a Haar-like feature over all possible scales and positions within a given image subwindow is an operation that happens so quickly, it's essentially invisible.

I was curious about what's actually happening during feature evaluation, so I wrote this web-based visualizer to illustrate the process in slow motion.

You can use it to generate a Haar-like feature with any configuration of constituent rectangles and visualize its computation through all possible scales and positions for a subwindow of a specified size.

With an applied step duration of 1 ms, the visualization is an approximately -59,999,990% speed representation.

It's permanently hosted here: http://haarlike.noahlevenson.com.

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