Face detection using template matching and skin-color information

Zhong Jin; Zhen Lou; Jingyu Yang; Quansen Sun

doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.043

Face detection using template matching and skin-color information

Zhong Jin, Zhen Lou, Jingyu Yang, Quansen Sun

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Abstract

A face-detection approach is proposed in the paper. Firstly, a luminance-conditional distribution model of skin-color information is used to detect skin pixels in color images; then, morphological operations are used to extract skin-region rectangles; finally, template matching based on a linear transformation is used to detect face in each skin-region rectangle. Experimental results on some color images from the FERET database and from the Internet are encouraging. The proposed algorithm is shown to be effective and efficient in detecting frontal faces in color images. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	794-800
Journal	Neurocomputing
Volume	70
Issue number	4-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.043
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

Face detection
Morphological operation
Skin-color information
Template matching

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