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HCr과 적응적 임계화에 의한 고속 얼굴 검출

Fast Face Detection in Video Using The HCr and Adaptive Thresholding Method

  • 발행 : 2004.11.01
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얼굴검출을 위한 다양한 연구가 행해지고 있으나 아직도 실시간성의 확보는 미진하다. 이에 본 연구는 연속영상에서 컬러와 움직임 정보를 이용한 실시간 얼굴검출 방법을 제안한다. 피부색 검출을 위한 컬러공간은 조명의 변화에 강인하고 피부색을 좁은 영역으로 정의할 수 있는 Hue와 Cr성분을 조합하여 재구성한 HCr을 사용한다. 배경참조영상 기반에서 밝기와 Cr 성분을 함께 사용하여 획득한 움직임 영역에서, HCr과 적응적 임계값을 이용해서 피부색 영역을 검출하고, 그 검출된 영역의 모양과 크기정보를 통해 얼굴 후보영역을 구한다. 이렇게 구해진 얼굴후보영역에서 G와 B성분의 차이, 밝기, Cr성분 값과 눈과 입의 위치 및 거리관계를 이용하여 눈과 입을 검출하여 얼굴을 확정한다. 실험결과 연속영상에서 실시간으로 얼굴을 검출 할 수 있었다.

Recently, various techniques for face detection are studied, but most of them still have problems on processing in real-time. Therefore, in this paper, we propose novel techniques for real-time detection of human faces in sequential images using motion and chroma information. First, background model is used to find a moving area. In this procmoving area. edure, intensity values for reference images are averaged, then skin-color are detected in We use HCr color-space model and adaptive threshold method for detection. Second, binary image labeling is applied to acquire candidate regions for faces. Candidates for mouth and eyes on a face are obtained using differences between green(G) and blue(B), intensity(I) and chroma-red(Cr) value. We also considered distances between eye points and mouth on a face. Experimental results show effectiveness of real-time detection for human faces in sequential images.

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