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Human Face Detection by Using Skin Color Segmentation, Face Features and Regions Properties

by Devendra Singh Raghuvanshi, Dheeraj Agrawal
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 38 - Number 9
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Devendra Singh Raghuvanshi, Dheeraj Agrawal
10.5120/4715-6881

Devendra Singh Raghuvanshi, Dheeraj Agrawal . Human Face Detection by Using Skin Color Segmentation, Face Features and Regions Properties. International Journal of Computer Applications. 38, 9 ( January 2012), 14-17. DOI=10.5120/4715-6881

@article{ 10.5120/4715-6881,
author = { Devendra Singh Raghuvanshi, Dheeraj Agrawal },
title = { Human Face Detection by Using Skin Color Segmentation, Face Features and Regions Properties },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { January 2012 },
volume = { 38 },
number = { 9 },
month = { January },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 14-17 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume38/number9/4715-6881/ },
doi = { 10.5120/4715-6881 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Devendra Singh Raghuvanshi
%A Dheeraj Agrawal
%T Human Face Detection by Using Skin Color Segmentation, Face Features and Regions Properties
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 38
%N 9
%P 14-17
%D 2012
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

The goal of face detection is to lo­cate all regions that contain a face. This pa­per has a simple face detection procedure which has two major steps, first to segment skin region from an image, and second, to decide these regions contain human face or not. Our procedure is based on skin color segmentation and human face features (knowledge-based approach). In this paper, we used RGB, YCbCr, CEILAB (L*a*b) and HSV color models for skin color segmentation. These color models with thresholds, help to remove non skin like pixels from an image. We tested each skin region, that skin region is actually represents a human face or not, by using human face features based on knowledge of geometrical properties of human face. The experiment result shows that, the algorithm gives hopeful results. At last, we concluded this paper and proposed future work.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Color Segmentation Face Features