Extraction of eye features for fetal alcohol syndrome screening

  • Authors:

  • T. S. Douglas;F. Martinez;E. M. Meintjes;C. L. Vaughan;D. Viljoen

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Cape Town, South Africa;University of Cape Town, South Africa;University of Cape Town, South Africa;University of Cape Town, South Africa;South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • AFRIGRAPH '01 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality and visualisation
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Conventional screening for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in children involves time-consuming and intrusive facial distance measurements. We are developing an alternative method that will allow automatic measurement of the relevant distances from a pair of stereo photographs. This paper describes a method for automatic extraction from such photographs of the points on the eyes used in the distance measurements, using peak and valley maps of face images.