Fast and robust face detection with skin color mixture models and asymmetric AdaBoost

Xinyu Wang; Huosheng Xu; Xi Chen; Heng Li

doi:10.1117/12.832569

30 October 2009 Fast and robust face detection with skin color mixture models and asymmetric AdaBoost

Xinyu Wang, Huosheng Xu, Xi Chen, Heng Li

Proceedings Volume 7496, MIPPR 2009: Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision; 749618 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.832569
Event: Sixth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2009, Yichang, China

Abstract

We present a new approach to face detection with skin color mixture models and asymmetric AdaBoost. First, non-skin color pixels of the input image are rapidly removed based on skin color mixture models in RGB and YCbCr chrominance spaces, from which we extract candidate face regions. Then, face detection with fast asymmetric AdaBoost is carried out in candidate face regions where ratios of pixels of skin color to non-skin color are beyond certain thresholds. To further reduce the computational cost, the integral image technique is employed to calculate ratios of pixels of skin color to non-skin color in candidate face regions. Finally, false alarms are gradually merged and removed by relative geometric relation and the rate of skin color pixels on the intersection line of candidate face regions. Experimental results show that our proposed method reduces significantly false alarms and the processing time while achieves detection rates of more than 99%.

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Xinyu Wang, Huosheng Xu, Xi Chen, and Heng Li "Fast and robust face detection with skin color mixture models and asymmetric AdaBoost", Proc. SPIE 7496, MIPPR 2009: Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 749618 (30 October 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.832569

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