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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2003.10B.6.711

Development of Face Tracking System Using Skin Color and Facial Shape  

Lee, Hyung-Soo (포항공과대학교 대학원 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartB / v.10B, no.6, 2003 , pp. 711-718 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a robust face tracking algorithm. It is based on Condensation algorithm [7] and uses skin color and facial shape as the observation measure. It is hard to integrate color weight and shape weight. So we propose the method that has two separate trackers which uses skin color and facial shape as the observation measure respectively. One tracker tracks skin colored region and the other tracks facial shape. We used importance sampling technique to limit sampling region of two trackers. For skin-colored region tracker, we propose an adaptive color model to avoid the effect of illumination change. The proposed face tracker performs robustly in clutter background and in the illumination changes.
Keywords
tracking; CONDENSATION;
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