%0 Conference Article %T OPTIMIZATION OF THE VIOLA-JONES METHOD FOR FACE DETECTION USING IMAGE PREPROCESSING %A Ptashnik, R.O. %A Antsiferova, V.I. %A Chirkin, N.A. %K face detection, Viola-Jones method, image preprocessing, Haar classifiers, quality metrics %J MODELING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES – 2026 %D 2026 %P 8 %I FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov