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Region of interest for Haar samples?

I've noticed with many face detection algorithms, that the detected region of interest closely crops the eyes and mouth... excluding ears, hair and chin. When collecting and cropping your positive sample collection, should I tightly crop ensuring that no background is visible, or loosely crop the region?

See my example:

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My guess is the right hand side, but I'd just like to double-check with the experts here.

Region of interest for Haar samples?

I've noticed with many face detection algorithms, that the detected region of interest closely crops the eyes and mouth... excluding ears, hair and chin. When collecting and cropping your my positive sample collection, should I tightly crop ensuring that no background is visible, or loosely crop the region?

See my example:

image description

My guess is the right hand side, but I'd just like to double-check with the experts here.