Robust real-time audiovisual face detection

Wei Mark Fang; Parham Aarabi

doi:10.1117/12.545934

12 April 2004 Robust real-time audiovisual face detection

Wei Mark Fang, Parham Aarabi

Proceedings Volume 5434, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2004; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545934
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a face detection system that synergizes audio localization and visual face detection. This audiovisual face detection system is based on microphone sound localization, and image processing algorithms. The system integrates the application of sound localization by Time Delay of Arrival and the iterative application of Adaptive Background Segmentation, to robustly perform real-time face detection on a stream of webcam images. Experimental results using an array of 24 microphones and a fixed-view webcam, show that the audiovisual face detection system is able to perform face detection of success rate 97.5% at 0.82 seconds of convergence time, and 5.8Hz display frame rate, on a Pentium IV 2.5GHz.

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Wei Mark Fang and Parham Aarabi "Robust real-time audiovisual face detection", Proc. SPIE 5434, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2004, (12 April 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545934

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