Fast method for face location and tracking by distributed behaviour-based agents

Author

Wang, Y. ; Yuan, B.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Control Eng., Univ. of Pet., Shandong, China

Volume

149

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

178

Abstract

The authors present a novel approach for fast human face location and tracking in colour image sequences. First, a number of colour-sensitive behaviour-based agents are uniformly distributed in the 2-D image environment to search the skin-like pixels and mark the face-like regions by activating their evolutionary behaviour. Then the shape information of each face candidate region is examined and the face regions are finally determined by fuzzy shape feature analysis. Experimental results show that the tracking speed is about 30 frames per second for a 160 × 120 video size and 12 fps for a 320 × 240 video size.

Keywords

feature extraction; fuzzy systems; image colour analysis; image segmentation; image sequences; multi-agent systems; object detection; tracking; video signal processing; 2D image environment; colour image sequences; colour-sensitive behaviour-based agents; distributed behaviour-based agents; evolutionary behaviour; face candidate region; face-like regions; fast method; fuzzy shape feature analysis; human face location; human face tracking; multiagent systems; shape information; skin-like pixels; uniform distribution; video size; vision-based human-computer interaction;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings -

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-245X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-vis:20020395

Filename

1028744