COMPARISON OF FOCUS MEASURES IN FACE DETECTION ENVIRONMENTS

J. Lorenzo, O. Déniz, M. Castrillón, C. Guerra

2007

Abstract

This work presents a comparison among different focus measures used in the literature for autofocusing in a non previously explored application of face detection. This application has different characteristics to those where traditionally autofocus methods have been applied like microscopy or depth from focus. The aim of the work is to find if the best focus measures in traditional applications of autofocus have the same performance in face detection applications. To do that six focus measures has been studied in four different settings from the oldest to more recent ones.

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Lorenzo J., Déniz O., Castrillón M. and Guerra C. (2007). COMPARISON OF FOCUS MEASURES IN FACE DETECTION ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-83-2, pages 418-423. DOI: 10.5220/0001644604180423


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@conference{icinco07,
author={J. Lorenzo and O. Déniz and M. Castrillón and C. Guerra},
title={COMPARISON OF FOCUS MEASURES IN FACE DETECTION ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,},
year={2007},
pages={418-423},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001644604180423},
isbn={978-972-8865-83-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,
TI - COMPARISON OF FOCUS MEASURES IN FACE DETECTION ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-972-8865-83-2
AU - Lorenzo J.
AU - Déniz O.
AU - Castrillón M.
AU - Guerra C.
PY - 2007
SP - 418
EP - 423
DO - 10.5220/0001644604180423