Title :
Thermal image analysis for anxiety detection
Author :
Pavlidis, Ioannis ; Levine, James ; Baukol, Paulette
Author_Institution :
Honeywell Labs., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
We propose a revolutionary concept for detecting suspects engaged in illegal and potentially harmful activities in or around critical military or civilian installations. We investigate the use of thermal image analysis to detect at a distance facial patterns of anxiety, alertness, and/or fearfulness. This is a totally novel approach to the problem of biometric identification. Instead of focusing on the question "who are you" we focus instead on the question "what are you about to do". Documented preliminary results clearly indicate the feasibility of the idea
Keywords :
biology computing; biometrics (access control); face recognition; image processing; infrared imaging; medical image processing; alertness; anxiety detection; biometric identification; critical civilian installations; facial pattern detection; fearfulness; illegal activities; military installations; thermal image analysis; Biometrics; Blood flow; Cameras; Design for experiments; Face detection; Humans; Image analysis; Psychology; Temperature sensors; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Thessaloniki
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6725-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2001.958491