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Facial-feature Detection in Color Images using Chrominance Components and Mean-Gray Morphology Operation  

강영도 (제주대학교 통신컴퓨터공학부)
양창우 (제주산업정보대학 컴퓨터정보계열)
김장형 (제주대학교 통신컴퓨터공학부)
Abstract
In detecting human faces in color images, additional geometric computation is often necessary for validating the face-candidate regions having various forms. In this paper, we propose a method that detects the facial features using chrominance components of color which do not affected by face occlusion and orientation. The proposed algorithm uses the property that the Cb and Cr components have consistent differences around the facial features, especially eye-area. We designed the Mean-Gray Morphology operator to emphasize the feature areas in the eye-map image which generated by basic chrominance differences. Experimental results show that this method can detect the facial features under various face candidate regions effectively.
Keywords
Facial feature detection; face detection; Eye map; Gray morphology;
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