Hybrid System for Robust Faces Detection

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2012-02-12
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Theautomaticdetectionoffacesisaveryimportantproblem.Theeffectivenessofbiometricauthenticationbasedonfacemainlydependsonthemethodusedtolocatethefaceintheimage.Thispaperpresentsahybridsystemforfacesdetectioninunconstrainedcasesinwhichtheillumination,pose,occlusion,andsizeofthefaceareuncontrolled.Todothis,thenewmethodofdetectionproposedinthispaperisbasedprimarilyonatechniqueofautomaticlearningbyusingthedecisionofthreeneuralnetworks,atechniqueofenergycompactionbyusingthediscretecosinetransform,andatechniqueofsegmentationbythecolorofhumanskin.Awholeofpictures(facesandnofaces)aretransformedtovectorsofdatawhichwillbeusedforlearningtheneuralnetworkstoseparatebetweenthetwoclasses.Discretecosinetransformisusedtoreducethedimensionofthevectors,toeliminatetheredundanciesofinformation,andtostoreonlytheusefulinformationinaminimumnumberofcoefficientswhilethesegmentationisusedtoreducethespaceofresearchintheimage.Theexperimentalresultshaveshownthatthishybridizationofmethodswillgiveaverysignificantimprovementoftherateoftherecognition,qualityofdetection,andthetimeofexecution.