Title :
Human face detection using skin color information
Author :
Shehadeh, Hakam ; Al-Khalaf, Audai ; Al-khassaweneh, Mahmood
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. Dept., Yarmouk Univ., Irbid, Jordan
Abstract :
This paper implements a new method to detect a human skin and faces from colored images. The proposed system based on the detection of all pixels in colored images which are probably a human skin via a reference skin colors matrix. The image then goes through some modifications to enhance the face detection. The circularity feature was used to distinguish human faces from other objects with similar skin color. The proposed system was tested using MatLab using different real images and the simulation results show effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords :
face recognition; image colour analysis; image resolution; image segmentation; matrix algebra; MatLab; circularity feature; colored images; human face detection; skin color information; skin colors matrix; Face; Face detection; Humans; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Pixel; Skin; Face Detection; Skin Color Classification; thresholding;
Conference_Titel :
Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Normal, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6873-7
DOI :
10.1109/EIT.2010.5612128