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AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR FACE DETECTION AND FACIAL FEATURE LOCATION USING PRUNE-AND-SEARCH TECHNIQUE

CHIN-CHEN CHANG

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan 621, R.O.C.

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YUAN-HUI YU

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan 621, R.O.C.

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001404003551Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient approach for human face detection and exact facial features location in a head-and-shoulder image. This method searches for the eye pair candidate as a base line by using the characteristic of the high intensity contrast between the iris and the sclera. To discover other facial features, the algorithm uses geometric knowledge of the human face based on the obtained eye pair candidate. The human face is finally verified with these unclosed facial features. Due to the merits of applying the Prune-and-Search and simple filtering techniques, we have shown that the proposed method indeed achieves very promising performance of face detection and facial feature location.

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