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Does different cascade means different features ? what are the different stages .. For instance in frontal face detection haar data there are 22 cascades does that means 22 different haar features are used .
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No, "number of cascades" means "number of stages" in the whole cascade. At any stage in the cascade the classifier rejects the sub-window under inspection. You should read this for a quick introduction to Viola & Jones algorithm and then get into this (the original article from the authors).
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