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Difference Edge Acquisition for B-spline Active Contour-Based Face Detection  

Kim, Ga-Hyun (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Biometric Engineering Research Center)
Jung, Ho-Gi (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Biometric Engineering Research Center)
Suhr, Jae-Kyu (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Biometric Engineering Research Center)
Kim, Jai-Hie (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Biometric Engineering Research Center)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.47, no.6, 2010 , pp. 19-27 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a method for enhancing detection performance and reducing computational cost when detecting a human face by applying B-spline active contour to the frame difference of consecutive images. Firstly, the method estimates amount of user's motion using kurtosis. If the kurtosis is smaller than a pre-defined threshold, it is considered that the amount of user's motion is insufficient and thus the contour fitting is not applied. Otherwise, the contour fitting is applied by exploiting the fact that the amount of motion is sufficient. Secondly, for the contour fitting, difference edges are detected by combining the distance transformation of the binarized frame difference and the edges of current frame. Lastly, the face is located by assigning the contour fitting process to the detected difference edges. Kurtosis-based motion amount estimation can reduce a computational cost and stabilize the results of the contour fitting. In addition, distance transformation-based difference edge detection can enhance the problems of contour lag and discontinuous difference edges. Experimental results confirm that the proposed method can reduce the face localization error caused by the contour lag and discontinuity of edges, and decrease the computational cost by omitting approximately 39% of the contour fitting.
Keywords
kurtosis; difference edge;
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