人脸识别中眉毛和下颚轮廓的提取外文文献翻译.docVIP

外文文献翻译 Extracting eyebrowcontour and chin contour for face recognition Abstract This paper proposes a novel method for extraction of eyebrow contour and chin contour. We ?rst segment rough eyebrow regions usingspatial constrained sub-area K-means clustering. Then eyebrow contours are extracted by Snake method with effective image force. For chin contour extraction, we ?rst estimate several possible chin locations which are used to build a number of curves as chin contour candidates.Based on the chin like edges extracted by proposed chin edge detector, the curve with the largest likeliness to be the actual chin contour isselected. Finally, the credible extracted eyebrow contour and the estimated chin contours are used as geometric features for face recognition. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms can extract eyebrow contours and chin contours with good accuracy and the extracted features are effective for improving face recognition rates. Keywords: Eyebrow; Chin contour; Face recognition; Feature extraction 1. Introduction Facial feature extraction is critical for facial expression analysis, model based coding and face recognition. A straight-forward approach of automatic face recognition is based on geometrical features, which measure the relative positions and the shapes of the different facial features. Traditionally, eye, and mouth are considered to be the most significant features for face recognition Ref. [1].However, eyebrows and chin are useful cues for face recognition. Ref. [2] locates eyebrows by means of PCA based template matching while Ref. [3] finds a rectangular region enclosing the eyebrow based on clustering in HIS domain. However, Ref.[2] does not consider local edge features and Ref.[3] does not limit a local search area for clustering. Their results are not so good since information like combination of two line segments and rectangular region cannot represent eyebrow shape. Refs. [4–6] estimate chin contour using active conto