Title :
Face location and tracking by distributed behavior-based agents
Author :
Yanjiang, Wang ; Baozong, Yuan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Control Eng., Univ. of Pet., Shandong, China
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel approach for fast human face location and tracking in color image sequences. A number of color sensitive behavior-based agents are. uniformly distributed in the 2D image environment to search the skin-like pixels and segment the face-like region by activating their evolutionary behavior. The agents work collaboratively and can locate the face region very fast. Experimental results show that the tracking speed is about 30 fps for 160 × 120 video size and 12 fps for 320 × 240 video size.
Keywords :
evolutionary computation; face recognition; image colour analysis; image segmentation; image sequences; multi-agent systems; tracking; 120 pixel; 160 pixel; 19200 pixel; 240 pixel; 2D image environment; 320 pixel; 76800 pixel; collaborative agents; color image sequences; distributed behavior-based agents; evolutionary behavior; face tracking; human face location; search; segmentation; skin-like pixels; Artificial intelligence; Collaborative work; Color; Face; Humans; Image segmentation; Intelligent agent; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing, 2002 6th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7488-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.2002.1181153
