Title
Head-shoulder human contour estimation in still images
Abstract
In this paper we propose a head-shoulder contour estimation model for human figures in still images, captured in a frontal pose. The contour estimation is guided by a learned head-shoulder shape model, initialized automatically by a face detector. A graph is generated around the detected face with an omega-like shape, and the estimated head-shoulder contour is a path in the graph with maximal cost. A dataset with labeled data is used to create the head-shoulder shape model and to quantitatively analyze the results. The proposed model is scaled according to the detected face size to be scale invariant. Experimental results indicate that the proposed technique works well in non trivial images, effectively estimating the contour of the head-shoulder even under partial occlusions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025055
Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
estimation theory,face recognition,pose estimation,face size detection,graph generation,head-shoulder human contour estimation model,head-shoulder shape model,omega-like shape,partial occlusion,scale invariant,still image estimation,human head-shoulder estimation,human segmentation,omega-shaped region
Computer vision,Graph,Scale invariance,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Labeled data,Detector
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
2
0.37
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacques, J.C.S.1102.31
Cláudio Rosito Jung220.71
Soraia Raupp Musse38410.67