Face detection based on skin color likelihood

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• 作者：Yuseok Ban ; Sang-Ki Kim ; Sooyeon Kim ; Kar-Ann Toh ; Sangyoun Lee
• 关键词：Face detection ; Skin color emphasis ; Likelihood ; Boosting ; Face pose variation ; Complex background
• 刊名：Pattern Recognition
• 出版年：April, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：47
• 期：4
• 页码：1573-1585
• 全文大小：3401 K

文摘

We propose a face detection method based on skin color likelihood via a boosting algorithm which emphasizes skin color information while deemphasizing non-skin color information. A stochastic model is adapted to compute the similarity between a color region and the skin color. Both Haar-like features and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features are utilized to build a cascaded classifier. The boosted classifier is implemented based on skin color emphasis to localize the face region from a color image. Based on our experiments, the proposed method shows good tolerance to face pose variation and complex background with significant improvements over classical boosting-based classifiers in terms of total error rate performance.