FACE DETECTION USING DISCRETE GABOR JETS AND COLOR INFORMATION

Ulrich Hoffmann, Jacek Naruniec, Ashkan Yazdani, Touradj Ebrahimi

2008

Abstract

Face detection allows to recognize and detect human faces and provides information about their location in a given image. Many applications such as biometrics, face recognition, and video surveillance employ face detection as one of their main modules. Therefore, improvement in the performance of existing face detection systems and new achievements in this field of research are of significant importance. In this paper a hierarchical classification approach for face detection is presented. In the first step, discrete Gabor jets (DGJ) are used for extracting features related to the brightness information of images and a preliminary classification is made. Afterwards, a skin detection algorithm, based on modeling of colored image patches, is employed as a post-processing of the results of DGJ-based classification. It is shown that the use of color efficiently reduces the number of false positives while maintaining a high true positive rate. Finally, a comparison is made with the OpenCV implementation of the Viola and Jones face detector and it is concluded that higher correct classification rates can be attained using the proposed face detector.

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Hoffmann U., Naruniec J., Yazdani A. and Ebrahimi T. (2008). FACE DETECTION USING DISCRETE GABOR JETS AND COLOR INFORMATION . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-60-9, pages 76-83. DOI: 10.5220/0001936400760083


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap08,
author={Ulrich Hoffmann and Jacek Naruniec and Ashkan Yazdani and Touradj Ebrahimi},
title={FACE DETECTION USING DISCRETE GABOR JETS AND COLOR INFORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={76-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001936400760083},
isbn={978-989-8111-60-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2008)
TI - FACE DETECTION USING DISCRETE GABOR JETS AND COLOR INFORMATION
SN - 978-989-8111-60-9
AU - Hoffmann U.
AU - Naruniec J.
AU - Yazdani A.
AU - Ebrahimi T.
PY - 2008
SP - 76
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0001936400760083