Localization of human faces fusing color segmentation and depth from stereo

Author

Moreno, Francesc ; Andrade-Cetto, Juan ; Sanfeliu, Alberto

Author_Institution

Inst. de Robotica i Informatica Ind., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

15-18 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

527

Abstract

Describes a method to localize faces in color images based on the fusion of the information gathered from a stereo vision system and the analysis of color images. Our method generates a depth map of the scene and tries to fit a head model taking into account the shape of the model and skin color information. The method is tailored for its use in factory automation applications where the detection and localization of humans is necessary for the completion or interruption of a particular task, such as robot manipulator safety or the interaction of service robots with humans.

Keywords

face recognition; factory automation; image colour analysis; image segmentation; industrial manipulators; mobile robots; robots; stereo image processing; color images; color segmentation; depth from stereo; depth map; factory automation; head model; human detection; human faces localization; robot manipulator safety; service robots; skin color information; stereo vision system; Face detection; Fusion power generation; Humans; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image generation; Image segmentation; Information analysis; Layout; Stereo vision;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Antibes-Juan les Pins, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7241-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2001.997729

Filename

997729