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Face and Iris Detection Algorithm based on SURF and circular Hough Transform  

Artem, Lenskiy (School of Electrical, Electronics and IT, University of Ulsan)
Lee, Jong-Soo (School of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.47, no.5, 2010 , pp. 175-182 More about this Journal
Abstract
The paper presents a novel algorithm for face and iris detection with the application for driver iris monitoring. The proposed algorithm consists of the following major steps: Skin-color segmentation, facial features segmentation, and iris positioning. For the skin-segmentation we applied a multi-layer perceptron to approximate the statistical probability of certain skin-colors, and filter out those with low probabilities. The next step segments the face region into the following categories: eye, mouth, eye brow, and remaining facial regions. For this purpose we propose a novel segmentation technique based on estimation of facial class probability density functions (PDF). Each facial class PDF is estimated on the basis of salient features extracted from a corresponding facial image region. Then pixels are classified according to the highest probability selected from four estimated PDFs. The final step applies the circular Hough transform to the detected eye regions to extract the position and radius of the iris. We tested our system on two data sets. The first one is obtained from the Web and contains faces under different illuminations. The second dataset was collected by us. It contains images obtained from video sequences recorded by a CCD camera while a driver was driving a car. The experimental results are presented, showing high detection rates.
Keywords
skin-color segmentation; facial features segmentation; circular Hough transform; iris detection;
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