Automatic Detection of Facial Midline And Its Contributions To Facial Feature Extraction

We propose a novel approach for detection of the facial midline from a frontal face image. Using midline as a guide reduces computational cost required for facial feature extraction (FFE) because the midline is capable of restricting multi-dimensional searching process into one-dimensional search. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Nakao, Nozomi, Ohyama, Wataru, Wakabayashi, Tetsushi, Kimura, Fumitaka
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:24591
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/24591
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/elcvia.142
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mitja línia facial
Detecció de característica facial
Media línea facial
Detección de característica facial
Facial midline
Facial feature detection
Generalized Hough transformation
Biometrics
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Sumario:We propose a novel approach for detection of the facial midline from a frontal face image. Using midline as a guide reduces computational cost required for facial feature extraction (FFE) because the midline is capable of restricting multi-dimensional searching process into one-dimensional search. The proposed method detects the facial midline from an edge image as the symmetry axis using the generalized Hough transformation. Experimental results on the FERET database indicate that the proposed algorithm can accurately detect facial midlines over many different scales and rotation. The total computational time for facial feature extraction has been reduced by a factor of 280 using the midline detected by this method.