MATLAB: Is there4 a facial recognition program for images other than faces

Question

I am an amateur photographer taking pictures of barnquilts all over the U.S. I have about 1400 identified quilt patterns that I have photographed, and there are thousands more. Is there some type of program that could match a quilt pattern from a photograph to identify the pattern from some type of quilt database ??

Answer 1

Yes, I suspect you could use a Viola-Jones Cascade Object Detector https://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/vision.cascadeobjectdetector-class.html . The examples you see there have to do with facial recognition but the technique does not depend at all that it is about faces. If you look at https://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ug/train-a-cascade-object-detector.html then you can see examples of it being trained on bicycles or signs.