Face detection using a dual cross-validation of chrominance/luminance channel decisions and decorrelation of the color space

  • Authors:
  • Victor-Emil Neagoe;Mihai Neghină

  • Affiliations:
  • Depart. Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;Depart. Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Computers: part of the 14th WSEAS CSCC multiconference - Volume I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a new face detection model based on the competition between the chrominance and luminance channel decisions. Each of the two detection branches has its own techniques of finding face candidates and the model implies a dual cross-validation of the above channels. One investigates the decision improvement of skin detection over the color channel by applying the conversion from the conventional RGB space into the 3D uncorrelated color space (UCS), using the Karhunen-Loève transform (KLT) in the color space. One evaluates the performances of the proposed model using an UCS by comparison to other two well known color representation (YCbCr) and (HSV). For experimental evaluations, we have chosen 120 images from "Labeled Faces in the Wild" database. The proposed algorithm leads to a correct detection score with about 7% better than the classical Viola-Jones method. The detection rates obtained using UCS representation are better by comparison to YCbCr and HSV color spaces.