Improved information maximization based face and facial feature detection from real-time video and application in a multi-modal person identification system

Author

Xiong, Ziyou ; Chen, Yunqiang ; Wang, Roy ; Huang, Thomas S.

Author_Institution

Beckman Inst. for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

516

Abstract

In this paper an improved face detection method based on our previous information-based maximum discrimination approach is presented that maximizes the discrimination between face and non-face examples in a training set without using color or motion information. A short review of our previous method is given together with a description of a recent improvement of its detection speed. A person identification system has been developed that performs multi-modal person identification in real-time video based on this newly improved face detection method together with speaker identification.

Keywords

face recognition; feature extraction; optimisation; real-time systems; speaker recognition; video signal processing; face/nonface example discrimination; information maximization based face detection; information maximization based facial feature detection; information-based maximum discrimination approach; multi-modal person identification system; real-time video; speaker identification; training set; Face detection; Facial features; Knowledge based systems; Maximum likelihood detection; Motion detection; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Probability distribution; Real time systems; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimodal Interfaces, 2002. Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1834-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMI.2002.1167048

Filename

1167048