Robust Face Detection Using the Hausdorff Distance

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Jesorsky;Klaus J. Kirchberg;Robert Frischholz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AVBPA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The localization of human faces in digital images is a fundamental step in the process of face recognition. This paper presents a shape comparison approach to achieve fast, accurate face detection that is robust to changes in illumination and background. The proposed method is edge-based and works on grayscale still images. The Hausdorff distance is used as a similarity measure between a general face model and possible instances of the object within the image. The paper describes an efficient implementation, making this approach suitable for real-time applications. A two-step process that allows both coarse detection and exact localization of faces is presented. Experiments were performed on a large test set base and rated with a new validation measurement.