Biologically motivated visual selective attention for face localization

  • Authors:
  • Sang-Woo Ban;Minho Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea;School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea

  • Venue:
  • WAPCV'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We propose a new biologically motivated model to localize or detect faces in natural color input scene. The proposed model integrates a bottom-up selective attention model and a top-down perception model. The bottom-up selective attention model using low level features sequentially selects a candidate area which is preferentially searched for face detection. The top-down perception model consists of a face spatial invariant feature detection model using ratio template matching method with training mechanism and a face color perception model, which is to model the roles of the inferior temporal areas and the V4 area, respectively. Finally, we construct a new face detection model by integration of the bottom-up saliency map model, the face color perception model and the face spatial invariant feature detection model. Computer experimental results show that the proposed model successfully indicates faces in natural scenes.