Image segmentation using colour

  • Authors:
  • Maurice Danaher

  • Affiliations:
  • Edith Cowan University, Western Australia

  • Venue:
  • CompSysTech '04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer systems and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents research-in-progress using colour as a means of image segmentation for use in biometric security methods on mobile devices. The limited processing capability of mobile devices has restricted the computational complexity of security algorithms that can be used. The purpose of our system is to use a colour based method to reduce the amount of information that must be processed by biometric algorithms. This is accomplished by creating a mug shot of a target individual from an image with an unknown background and unknown target/camera positions. Specific security algorithms can then be applied to the generated mug shot. An overall reduction in data processing will allow more effective biometric security measures to be implemented.