A higher-order-statistics-based approach to face detection

Chunming Li; Yushan Li; Ruihong Wu; Qiuming Li; Qingde Zhuang; Zhan Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.576564

8 February 2005 A higher-order-statistics-based approach to face detection

Chunming Li, Yushan Li, Ruihong Wu, Qiuming Li, Qingde Zhuang, Zhan Zhang

Proceedings Volume 5637, Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.576564
Event: Photonics Asia, 2004, Beijing, China

Abstract

A face detection method based on higher order statistics is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the object model and noise model are established to extract moving object from the background according to the fact that higher order statistics is nonsense to Gaussian noise. Secondly, the improved Sobel operator is used to extract the edge image of moving object. And a projection function is used to detect the face in the edge image. Lastly, PCA(Principle Component Analysis) method is used to do face recognition. The performance of the system is evaluated on the real video sequences. It is shown that the proposed method is simple and robust to the detection of human faces in the video sequences.

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Chunming Li, Yushan Li, Ruihong Wu, Qiuming Li, Qingde Zhuang, and Zhan Zhang "A higher-order-statistics-based approach to face detection", Proc. SPIE 5637, Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV, (8 February 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.576564

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