Face detection in color images of generic scenes

Author

Campadelli, Paola ; Lanzarotti, Raffaella ; Lipori, Giuseppe

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Sci. deirinformazione, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy

fYear

2004

fDate

21-22 July 2004

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

103

Abstract

In this paper we describe a face detection algorithm, the key idea being to determine roughly the skin regions of a 2D color image and searching for eyes through them. The technique is based on a support vector machine trained to separate sub images representing eyes from others. The algorithm can be used in face image database management systems both as a first step of a person identification, and to discriminate the images on the basis of the number of faces in them.

Keywords

biometrics (access control); eye; face recognition; image colour analysis; image representation; image segmentation; skin; support vector machines; visual databases; 2D color image; color images; eye searching; face detection algorithm; face image database management systems; image discrimination; image representation; image separation; person identification; skin region determination; support vector machine; Color; Eyes; Face detection; Humans; Image resolution; Layout; Lighting; Robustness; Skin; Support vector machines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, 2004. CIHSPS 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8381-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIHSPS.2004.1360217

Filename

1360217