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Partial faces are occluded due to hair, hat, glasses, hands, mobile phones, and side-angle-captured images. Fewer facial features can be identified from such images. In this paper, we present a deep convolutional neural network face detection method using the anchor boxes section strategy. We limited the number of anchor boxes and scales and chose only relevant to the face shape. The proposed model was trained and tested on a popular and challenging face detection benchmark dataset, i.e., Face Detection Dataset and Benchmark (FDDB), and can also detect partially covered faces with better accuracy and precision. Extensive experiments were performed, with evaluation metrics including accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, inference time, and FPS. The results show that the proposed model is able to detect the face in the image, including occluded features, more precisely than other state-of-the-art approaches, achieving 94.8% accuracy and 98.7% precision on the FDDB dataset at 21 frames per second (FPS).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/bdcc6010009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,11]],"date-time":"2022-01-11T14:05:07Z","timestamp":1641909907000},"page":"9","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["An Efficient Multi-Scale Anchor Box Approach to Detect Partial Faces from a Video Sequence"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6376-8346","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dweepna","family":"Garg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Devang Patel Institute of Advance Technology and Research (DEPSTAR), Faculty of Technology and Engineering (FTE), Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Nadiad-Petlad Road, Highway, Changa 388421, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5440-9042","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Priyanka","family":"Jain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Artificial Intelligence Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Jasola Vihar, New Delhi 110025, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2653-3780","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ketan","family":"Kotecha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Symbiosis Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Sena Pati Bapat Road, Pune 411004, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Parth","family":"Goel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Devang Patel Institute of Advance Technology and Research (DEPSTAR), Faculty of Technology and Engineering (FTE), Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Nadiad-Petlad Road, Highway, Changa 388421, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vijayakumar","family":"Varadarajan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 1466, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"137","DOI":"10.1023\/B:VISI.0000013087.49260.fb","article-title":"Robust real-time face detection","volume":"57","author":"Viola","year":"2004","journal-title":"Int. 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