Regression and Classification Approaches to Eye Localization in Face Images

  • Authors:
  • Mark Everingham;Andrew Zisserman

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oxford, UK;University of Oxford, UK

  • Venue:
  • FGR '06 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We address the task of accurately localizing the eyes in face images extracted by a face detector, an important problem to be solved because of the negative effect of poor localization on face recognition accuracy. We investigate three approaches to the task: a regression approach aiming to directly minimize errors in the predicted eye positions, a simple Bayesian model of eye and non-eye appearance, and a discriminative eye detector trained using AdaBoost. By using identical training and test data for each each method we are able to perform an unbiased comparison. We show that, perhaps surprisingly, the simple Bayesian approach performs best on databases including challenging images, and performance is comparable to more complex stateof- the-art methods.