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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 28-450
Full Name: Kenneth Sundaraj
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: University Malaysia Perlis, School of Mechatronic Engineering, 02600 Jejawi - Perlis
Country: MALAYSIA
Tel: 00 6012 6011 974
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E-mail address: kenneth@unimap.edu.my
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Title of the Paper: Real-Time Face Detection using Dynamic Background Subtraction
Authors as they appear in the Paper: K. Sundaraj
Email addresses of all the authors: kenneth@unimap.edu.my
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Face biometrics is an automated method of recognizing a person's face based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Face recognition works by first obtaining an image of a person. This process is usually known as face detection. In this paper, we describe an approach for face detection that is able to locate a human face embedded in an outdoor or indoor background. Segmentation of novel or dynamic objects in a scene, often referred to as background subtraction or foreground segmentation, is a critical early step in most computer vision applications in domains such as surveillance and human-computer interaction. All previous implementations aim to handle properly one or more problematic phenomena, such as global illumination changes, shadows, highlights, foreground-background similarity, occlusion and background clutter. Satisfactory results have been obtained but very often at the expense of real-time performance. We propose a method for modeling the backg!
round that uses per-pixel time-adaptive Gaussian mixtures in the combined input space of pixel color and pixel neighborhood. We add a safety net to this approach by splitting the luminance and chromaticity components in the background and use their density functions to detect shadows and highlights. Several criteria are then combined to discriminate foreground and background pixels. Our experiments show that the proposed method possesses robustness to problematic phenomena such as global illumination changes, shadows and highlights, without sacrificing real-time performance, making it well-suited for a live video event like face biometric that requires face detection and recognition.
Keywords: Face Detection, Background Subtraction
EXTENSION of the file: .pdf
Special (Invited) Session: Enhanced Face Detection For Biometric Security
Organizer of the Session: 594-381
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