Detecting human faces in color images

A method for detecting human faces in color images is described that first separates skin regions from nonskin regions and then locates faces within skin regions. A chroma chart is prepared via a training process that contains the likelihoods of different colors representing the skin. Using the chro...

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Published in:Image and vision computing 1999-12, Vol.18 (1), p.63-75
Main Authors: Cai, J, Goshtasby, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chroma chart
Color image
Gray scale image
Skin-color region
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Summary:A method for detecting human faces in color images is described that first separates skin regions from nonskin regions and then locates faces within skin regions. A chroma chart is prepared via a training process that contains the likelihoods of different colors representing the skin. Using the chroma chart, a color image is transformed into a gray scale image in such a way that the gray value at a pixel shows the likelihood of the pixel representing the skin. An obtained gray scale image is then segmented to skin and nonskin regions, and model faces representing front- and side-view faces are used in a template-matching process to detect faces within skin regions. The false-positive and false-negative errors of the proposed face-detection method on color images of size 300×220 and containing four or fewer faces are 0.04 or less.
ISSN:0262-8856
1872-8138
DOI:10.1016/S0262-8856(99)00006-2