Face Detection Algorithm using Color and Convex-Hull Based Region Information

  • Park, Minsick (ICS Lab., Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Chang-Woo (ICS Lab., Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Mignon (ICS Lab., Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2001.06.01

Abstract

The detection of face in color images is important for many multimedia applications. It is the first step for face recognition and ran be used for classifying specific shots. In this paper describes a new method to detect faces in color images based on the skin color and hair color. In the first step of the processing, regions of the human skin color and head color are extracted and those regions are found by their color information. Then we converted binary scale from the image. Then we are connected regions in a binary image by label. In the next step we are found regions of interesting by their region information and some conditions.

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