A Face Detection Method Used for Color Images （用于彩色图像的人脸检测方法）.pdf

International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Vol. 8, No. 2 (2015), pp. 257-266 /10.14257/ijsip.205 A Face Detection Method Used for Color Images Wen-cheng Wang Department of Information and Control, Weifang University, Weifang 261061, China wwchpaper@126.com Abstract To the problem of face detection in color images, a novel method is proposed based on skin color segmentation and geometry features. Firstly, some common color models are analyzed, and a large amount of skin images are used to establish an YCbCr color model for region segmentation. Then, the morphological processing is executed on the binary image, and the facial regions filtering is conducted by adopting some geometry constraints such as Euler number, the ratio of width and height, centroid. Finally, the face region is located and labeled with a rectangle. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can equilibrate the unbalance between good accuracy and real-time performance to some extent, and is effective inface location. Keywords: Face Detection, Color Space , Color Image, Skin Color Model 1. Introduction Face detection is a key link in automatic face recognition system and a popular hotspot in computer vision and pattern recognition research, which has been widely applied in content-based image r etrieval, access control system, video surveillance, video conferencing and intelligent man-machine interaction and other fields [1, 2