A NOVEL METHOD FOR HORIZONTAL EYE LINE DETECTION UNDER VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTS

作者:Jing Min Quan*; Cheny Ling Hwei
来源:International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2010, 24(3): 475-498.
DOI:10.1142/S0218001410008020

摘要

The eye line is defined to be a horizontal line passing the two eyes of a human face. It can be used to help locate the true positions of eyes and face. In this paper, we propose a method to extract the horizontal eye line of a face under various environments. Based on the facts that the eye color is very different from skin color and the gray level variance of an eye is high, some eye-like regions are first located. Then the horizontal eye line is extracted based on the located eye-like regions and some geometric properties in a face. Experimental results are given to show that the proposed method is robust under a wide range of lighting conditions, different poses and races. The detection rate for HHI face database is 95.63%. For Champion face database, the detection rate is 94.27%.

  • 出版日期2010-5