Face segmentation using projection pursuit for texture classification

  • Authors:
  • Victor R. S. Laboreiro;J. E. B. Maia;Thelmo P. de Araujo

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Estadual do Ceará --- UECE, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil;Universidade Estadual do Ceará --- UECE, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil;Universidade Estadual do Ceará --- UECE, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Frontal face images are segmented into 7 regions using only sum and difference histograms as pixel information, without any a priori knowledge. In the training phase, a decision tree is created using a projection pursuit algorithm: in each step, the optimal one-dimensional projection is chosen by a simulated annealing process according to a projection index, and classes are isolated by a decision boundary that maximizes class separability, until the end nodes contain only one class each. Satisfactory qualitative and quantitative results were obtained and presented.