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Contour Extraction of Facial Features Based on the Enhanced Snake

개선된 스네이크를 이용한 얼굴 특징요소의 윤곽 추출

  • 이성수 (배재대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 장종환 (배재대학교 정보통신공학과)
  • Received : 2015.02.02
  • Accepted : 2015.07.27
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

One of typical methods for extracting facial features from face images may be snake. Although snake is simple and fast, performance is very much affected by the initial contour and the shape of object to be extracted. In this paper, the enhanced snake is proposed to extract better facial features from 6 lip and mouth images as snake point is added to the midpoint of snake segment. It is shown that RSD of the proposed method is about 2.8% to 5.8% less than that of Greedy snake about 6 test face images. Since lesser RSD is especially obtained for contours with highly concavity, the contour is more accurately extracted.

얼굴 요소의 윤곽을 추출하는 대표적인 방법 중의 하나는 스네이크다. 스네이크는 간단하고 빠르지만 초기 윤곽 및 개체 형태에 따라 성능이 결정된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 스네이크 세그먼트의 중간 위치에 스네이크 포인트를 추가하는 방법으로 윤곽을 더 정확하게 추출할 수 있는 개선된 스네이크를 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 6개의 입과 눈 실험 영상에 적용하여 Greedy 스네이크보다 RSD가 2.8%에서 5.8% 정도 감소하였다. 특히 RSD 감소는 대부분 심한 굴곡이 갖는 윤곽 영역에서 얻음으로써 더 정확한 윤곽 추출을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

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