A skin-color extraction algorithm is proposed to detect human faces in color images with varying illumination condition and presence of complex background. The approach is based on both a Gaussian mixture model of human skin-color distribution and image segmentation using all automatic and adaptive multi-thresholding technique. Detected regions are then refined by morphological operations. Experimental results on images presenting a wide range of variations in lighting condition, face orientation, scale, pose, facial expression and background, demonstrate the efficiency of our skin-segmentation algorithm. Using additional information about facial features, our method becomes an efficient step in localizing candidate faces for a face detection system.


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    Titel :

    Skin-color extraction in images with complex background and varying illumination


    Beteiligte:
    Quan Huynh-Thu, (Autor:in) / Meguro, M. (Autor:in) / Kaneko, M. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2002


    Format / Umfang :

    595006 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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