A novel skin color model in YCbCr color space and its application to human face detection

Author(s):  
Son Lam Phung ◽  
A. Bouzerdoum ◽  
D. Chai
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 929-937
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Yang ◽  
Nannan Liang ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Hongmei Lu

This paper integrates skin color model and improved AdaBoost into a face detection method for high-resolution images with complex backgrounds. Firstly, the skin color areas were detected in a multi-color space. Each image was subject to adaptive brightness compensation, and converted into the YCbCr space, and a skin color model was established to solve face similarity. After eliminating the background interference by morphological method, the skin color areas were segmented to obtain the candidate face areas. Next, the inertia weight control factors and random search factor were introduced to optimize the global search ability of particle swarm optimization (PSO). The improved PSO was adopted to optimize the initial connection weights and output thresholds of the neural network. After that, a strong AdaBoost classifier was designed based on optimized weak BPNN classifiers, and the weight distribution strategy of AdaBoost was further improved. Finally, the improved AdaBoost was employed to detect the final face areas among the candidate areas. Simulation results show that our face detection method achieved high detection rate at a fast speed, and lowered false detection rate and missed detection rate.


Author(s):  
NAGAPRIYA KAMATH K ◽  
ASHWINI HOLLA ◽  
SUBRAMANYA BHAT

Face detection is a image processing technology that determines the location and size of human faces in digital images or video. This module precedes face recognition systems that plays an important role in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interaction and so on. This proposed work focuses mainly on multiple face detection technique, taking into account the variations in digital images or video such as face pose, appearances and illumination. The work is based on skin color model in YCbCr and HSV color space. First stage of this proposed method is to develop a skin color model and then applying the skin color segmentation in order to specify all skin regions in an image. Secondly, a template matching is done to assure that the segmented image does not contain any non-facial part. This algorithm works to be robust and efficient.


2013 ◽  
Vol 706-708 ◽  
pp. 1877-1881
Author(s):  
San Tang

Face detection is the first step of face recognition, and is a very active research topic in the filed of computer vision and pattern recognition. A skin color model based face detection method for chromatic images is proposed in this paper. The H-CgCr skin color model is established by taking advantage of the color pixels clustering distribution in the HSV and YCgCr color space. The noises are eliminated based on skin color segmentation, and the face candidate region is judged according to knowledge-based, finally, the position of the face area is marked by the box. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is feasible and effective.


2012 ◽  
Vol 562-564 ◽  
pp. 1377-1381
Author(s):  
Dong Ming Zhou ◽  
Hong Cai

This paper presented a face detection method for the color image using pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) and skin color model. The color image which is processed well through light compensation is converted from RGB to YCbCr color space, then the skin area are divided into sub-block, and skin color segmentation is made for the image in YCbCr space. Finally, we use PCNN to extract all sub-block ignition time sequence, and calculate various sub-block difference degrees between target face and the tested image, if the difference degree is the smallest, then the target face himself is the same person. Experimental results show that the proposed method has higher accuracy and robustness, can obtain satisfactory detection effect.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Gao

Detection of human face has many realistic and important applications such as human and computer interface, face recognition, face image database management, security access control systems and content-based indexing video retrieval systems. In this report a face detection scheme will be presented. The scheme is designed to operate on color images. In the first stage of algorithm, the skin color regions are detected based on the chrominance information. A color segmentation stage is then employed to make skin color regions to be divided into smaller regions which have homogenous color. Then, we use the iterative luminance segmentation to further separate the detected skin region from other skin-colored objects such as hair, clothes, and wood, based on the high variance of the luminance component in the neighborhood of edges of objects. Post-processing is applied to determine whether skin color regions fit the face constrains on density of skin, size, shape and symmetry and contain the facial features such as eyes and mouths. Experimental results show that the algorithm is robust and is capable of detecting multiple faces in the presence of a complex background which contains the color similar to the skin tone.


2013 ◽  
Vol 393 ◽  
pp. 556-560
Author(s):  
Nurul Fatiha Johan ◽  
Yasir Mohd Mustafah ◽  
Nahrul Khair Alang Md Rashid

Skin color is proved to be very useful technique for human body parts detection. The detection of human body parts using skin color has gained so much attention by many researchers in various applications especially in person tracking, search and rescue. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting human body parts using YCbCr color spaces in color images. The image captured in RGB format will be transformed into YCbCr color space. This color model will be converted to binary image by using color thresholding which contains the candidate human body parts like face and hands. The detection algorithm uses skin color segmentation and morphological operation.


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