Projection based method for segmentation of human face and its evaluation

Baskan S., Bulut M., Atalay V.

PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, vol.23, no.14, pp.1623-1629, 2002 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 23 Issue: 14
  • Publication Date: 2002
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0167-8655(02)00037-5
  • Journal Name: PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1623-1629
  • Keywords: facial feature segmentation, face detection, gray value projections, segmentation evaluation, RECOGNITION
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We detect facial features and then circumscribe each facial feature with the smallest rectangle possible by using vertical and horizontal gray value projections of pixels. The result is evaluated with respect to the manually located enclosing rectangle on the images of a publicly available database.