Title :
Face contour detection using geometric active contours
Author :
Huang, Fuzhen ; Su, Jianbo
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Autom., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Abstract :
In this paper, a new method that incorporates prior shape information into geometric active contours for face contour detection is proposed. The improved geometric active contour model is implemented using a variational level set approach. With this model, face contours in images with complex backgrounds can be detected accurately depending on both the image edges and the prior face shape. The experiment results show the efficiency and effectiveness of our method.
Keywords :
computational geometry; edge detection; face recognition; feature extraction; complex backgrounds; experiment results; face contour detection; facial feature extraction; geometric active contours; image edges; prior shape information; variational level set approach; Active contours; Data mining; Face detection; Head; Image edge detection; Intelligent robots; Level set; Robotics and automation; Shape; Solid modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2002. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7268-9
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2002.1021453
