DocumentCode
2861095
Title
Facial contour extraction model
Author
Yokoyama, Taro ; Yagi, Yasushi ; Yachida, Masahiko
Author_Institution
Grad. Sch. of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan
fYear
1998
fDate
14-16 Apr 1998
Firstpage
254
Lastpage
259
Abstract
The extraction of facial contours from a facial image is a challenging problem in computer vision. We propose a new active contour model for extracting facial outline contours. Our model has three characteristics: axis symmetry constraint, dual scale edge filtering and iterative initialization. We implemented this method in our Automatical Facial Contour Extraction System, and tested it on 60 facial images. We show the advantage of this method for detecting facial outline contours by a psychological experiment
Keywords
edge detection; face recognition; feature extraction; psychology; Automatical Facial Contour Extraction System; active contour model; axis symmetry constraint; computer vision; dual scale edge filtering; facial contour extraction model; facial image; facial outline contour detection; facial outline contours; iterative initialization; psychological experiment; Active contours; Computer vision; Face detection; Face recognition; Filtering; Filters; Humans; Image edge detection; Shape; Yagi-Uda antennas;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 1998. Proceedings. Third IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Nara
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8344-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/AFGR.1998.670957
Filename
670957
Link To Document