Fast approach for detecting human faces in a complex background

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Abstract

Human face detection is an important capability with a wide range of applications, such as human face recognition, surveillance systems, human-computer interfacing, video-conferencing, etc. In most such applications, the existence of human faces and their corresponding locations must be found. In other words, a reliable and fast method for detecting and locating face regions is of practical importance. In this paper, possible face region candidates in an image with a complex background are identified by means of the valley features on the eyes. These valley features are considered to belong to the eyes of a human face if they satisfy the local properties of the eyes. A pair of these features is matched if their Gabor features are similar; a face region is then formed. Each of the face region candidates is then further verified by matching it to a human face template, and by measuring its symmetry. Experiments show that this approach is fast and reliable.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)85-88
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Volume4
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1998
EventProceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS. Part 5 (of 6) - Monterey, CA, United States
Duration: 31 May 19983 Jun 1998

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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