Eye pupil localization on face images using eliptical gabor filters and local minima

Author

Ayhan, Belgin ; Abaci, Bahri ; Akgiil, Tayfun

Author_Institution

Elektron. ve Haberlesme Muhendisligi Bolumu, Istanbul Teknik Univ., İstanbul, Turkey

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 April 2014

Firstpage

923

Lastpage

926

Abstract

In this paper an eye localization algorithm which uses elliptical Gabor filters and local minima to detect eye pupils on a face image is proposed. First, face is detected in a given image. Then this face image is converted into gray-scale. Finally eye pupils are localized using elliptical Gabor filters and local minimum points. The method is tested on our combined data set using images form "ScFace", Hong Kong University "Face", "Karolinska Faces" and "MUCT" databases. For eye localization, a success rate of %89 for 569 images is achieved.

Keywords

Gabor filters; eye; face recognition; object detection; Karolinska Faces database; Kong University Face database; MUCT database; ScFace database; eliptical Gabor filter; eye pupil detection; eye pupil localization; face image; gray scale image; local minima; Conferences; Databases; Face; Iris recognition; Pattern recognition; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Gabor filters; eye pupil localization; face recognition; local minima;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2014 22nd

Conference_Location

Trabzon

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIU.2014.6830381

Filename

6830381