Fast and efficient algorithm for face detection in colour images

  • Authors:
  • Georgy Kukharev;Adam Nowosielski

  • Affiliations:
  • Szczecin University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Szczecin;Szczecin University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Szczecin

  • Venue:
  • Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Detecting human faces automatically is an indispensable step in any system that exploits information content in a face. The surveillance systems are of particular interest in that field. To correctly recognize a person from an input image, presence and location of the head must be determined in the first step. If the face detection subsystems fails, the performance of the whole system suffers. In the article a scheme for detecting faces in colour images is proposed. It utilizes the skin colour method with a new approach to detecting skin colour pixels in the RGB colour space. The edge information is used to increase the distinction between the skin-coloured face patches and the background. It is followed by a scan line candidate determination algorithm. A new method (combining profiles, geometrical moments, the use of the R - B colour subspace and grey level images) for eyes localization is presented. The verification is finally made based on a well-known template matching approach. After new methods and modifications were evaluated, a system based on the proposed scheme was built and tested.