Title
A novel method for detecting lips, eyes and faces in real time
Abstract
This paper presents a real-time face detection algorithm for locating faces in images and videos. This algorithm finds not only the face regions, but also the precise locations of the facial components such as eyes and lips. The algorithm starts from the extraction of skin pixels based upon rules derived from a simple quadratic polynomial model. Interestingly, with a minor modification, this polynomial model is also applicable to the extraction of lips. The benefits of applying these two similar polynomial models are twofold. First, much computation time are saved. Second, both extraction processes can be performed simultaneously in one scan of the image or video frame. The eye components are then extracted after the extraction of skin pixels and lips. Afterwards, the algorithm removes the falsely extracted components by verifying with rules derived from the spatial and geometrical relationships of facial components. Finally, the precise face regions are determined accordingly. According to the experimental results, the proposed algorithm exhibits satisfactory performance in terms of both accuracy and speed for detecting faces with wide variations in size, scale, orientation, color, and expressions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/j.rti.2003.08.003
Real-Time Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel method,extraction process,simple quadratic polynomial model,face region,facial component,polynomial model,real time,similar polynomial model,precise face region,proposed algorithm,algorithm start,real-time face detection algorithm,face detection
Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Polynomial,Computer science,Image processing,Quadratic function,Information extraction,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Face detection,Polynomial and rational function modeling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
4
Real-Time Imaging
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
1.84
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheng-chin Chiang113216.10
Wen-Kai Tai211916.71
Mau-Tsuen Yang316416.07
Yi-Ting Huang4341.84
Chi-jaung Huang5352.20