Locating human faces in newspaper photographs

Author

Govindaraju, Venu ; Sher, David B. ; Srihari, Rohini K. ; Srihari, Sargur N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

4-8 Jun 1989

Firstpage

549

Lastpage

554

Abstract

A computational approach to locating human faces in newspaper photographs is described. While the computational recognition of a well-framed face as one of a known set of faces has received some attention, the computational location of faces in varying contexts is relatively unexplored. Candidates for the locations of faces are hypothesized by extracting features in the edge-image of the photograph and matching with a model of a face profile. A face is defined by a parametric representation of each of the component parts. Knowledge contained in the caption is represented using semantic networks and is used to reason about the locations of faces of individuals in the photograph

Keywords

computerised pattern recognition; computerised picture processing; caption; edge-image; face recognition; feature extraction; human face location; newspaper photographs; pattern recognition; semantic networks; Computer science; Computer vision; Face detection; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Humans; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Prototypes; Venus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1989. Proceedings CVPR '89., IEEE Computer Society Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1063-6919

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1952-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVPR.1989.37900

Filename

37900