Title :
Face detection method based on skin color and facial features
Author :
Zhu, Youlian ; Zhai, Lifang ; Wei, Chen
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Electron. Inf. Eng., Jiangsu Teachers Univ. of Technol., Changzhou, China
Abstract :
An accurate face location method is introduced for face detection from the color image which has a complex background. Firstly, the method converts the image from the RGB color space to the rgb space. In the rgb space, skin-color features are used to skin-color segmentation and the possible facial area is determined by median and morphological filter. Then, in the YIQ color space, lip-color information is separated according to the lip-color model. The face contour is tracked according to facial features and lip-color information, so that the face area can be precisely located. Finally, the effectiveness of the method is verified in VC++ environment.
Keywords :
face recognition; feature extraction; filtering theory; image colour analysis; image segmentation; skin; Face detection method; RGB color space; VC++ environment; YIQ color space; facial features; image color; median filter; morphological filter; skin color; Face; Facial features; Image color analysis; Information filters; Space technology; face detection; lip-color model; median filtering; morphology filtering; skin-color model;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 2010 8th World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Jinan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6712-9
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554582
