Improved Neural Network-based Face Detection Method using Color Images

Yuriy Kurylyak, Ihor Paliy, Anatoly Sachenko, Kurosh Madani, Amine Chohra

2007

Abstract

The paper describes some face detection algorithms using skin color segmentation, Haar-like features and neural networks. The segmentation using skin color labels promising input image areas that may contain faces. The usage of Haar-like features allows fast rejection of the majority of background. Then, the ensemble of retinally connected neural networks performs the final classification of the rest image windows using improved face search strategy across scale and position. The proposed search strategy applies inverse image scale pyramid, adaptive scanning step and window acceptance to decrease the number of windows which should be processed by the classifier.

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in Harvard Style

Kurylyak Y., Paliy I., Sachenko A., Madani K. and Chohra A. (2007). Improved Neural Network-based Face Detection Method using Color Images . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-86-3, pages 107-114. DOI: 10.5220/0001637101070114


in Bibtex Style

@conference{anniip07,
author={Yuriy Kurylyak and Ihor Paliy and Anatoly Sachenko and Kurosh Madani and Amine Chohra},
title={Improved Neural Network-based Face Detection Method using Color Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={107-114},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001637101070114},
isbn={978-972-8865-86-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2007)
TI - Improved Neural Network-based Face Detection Method using Color Images
SN - 978-972-8865-86-3
AU - Kurylyak Y.
AU - Paliy I.
AU - Sachenko A.
AU - Madani K.
AU - Chohra A.
PY - 2007
SP - 107
EP - 114
DO - 10.5220/0001637101070114