Directional templates for real-time detection of coronal axis rotated faces

Claudio A. Perez; Pablo A. Estevez; Patricio Garate

doi:10.1117/12.571557

25 October 2004 Directional templates for real-time detection of coronal axis rotated faces

Claudio A. Perez, Pablo A. Estevez, Patricio Garate

Proceedings Volume 5603, Machine Vision and its Optomechatronic Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571557
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

Real-time face and iris detection on video images has gained renewed attention because of multiple possible applications in studying eye function, drowsiness detection, virtual keyboard interfaces, face recognition, video processing and multimedia retrieval. In this paper, a study is presented on using directional templates in the detection of faces rotated in the coronal axis. The templates are built by extracting the directional image information from the regions of the eyes, nose and mouth. The face position is determined by computing a line integral using the templates over the face directional image. The line integral reaches a maximum when it coincides with the face position. It is shown an improvement in localization selectivity by the increased value in the line integral computed with the directional template. Besides, improvements in the line integral value for face size and face rotation angle was also found through the computation of the line integral using the directional template. Based on these results the new templates should improve selectivity and hence provide the means to restrict computations to a fewer number of templates and restrict the region of search during the face and eye tracking procedure. The proposed method is real time, completely non invasive and was applied with no background limitation and normal illumination conditions in an indoor environment.

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Claudio A. Perez, Pablo A. Estevez, and Patricio Garate "Directional templates for real-time detection of coronal axis rotated faces", Proc. SPIE 5603, Machine Vision and its Optomechatronic Applications, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571557

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