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In computer graphics field, stroke-based painterly rendering (SBPR) is the program to convert photographs into paintings, such as oil painting, watercolor and sketches. Beyond specific techniques to render real photographs, major challenge is how to understand real photographs as human visual perception and cognition according to artists' painting motivation, which parts should be drawn and how to...
This paper proposes techniques for face detection and gives the implementation details for an FPGA development board. We analyze and discuss the relation between the system computation cost and selection of the image scaling factor. We give a new method to select the stop threshold for the image reduction process, which reduces the total computation by half. We also provide a color image output mode...
We propose a novel method for single-shot photometric stereo by spectral multiplexing. The output of our method is a simultaneous per-pixel estimate of the surface normal and full-color reflectance. Our method is well suited to materials with varying color and texture, requires no time-varying illumination, and no high-speed cameras. Being a single-shot method, it may be applied to dynamic scenes...
An improved face detection and recognition method based on information of skin color and depth obtained by binocular vision system was proposed in this paper. With this method, the face area was detected firstly by using Adaboost algorithm. Afterwards, the real face was distinguished from fake one by using the skin color information and the depth data. Then, by using PCA algorithm, a specific face...
Car license plate detection is a basic task in ITS. A MSER license plate detection method is proposed in the paper constrained by some priori knowledges of license plate. First the input image is pre-processed with grayscaling and gray stretching, etc, and then, the candidate MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Region) license plate regions are chosen according to the pixel sum, the scale and length-width...
In a real-time face recognition system, complex background that occurs in an image or video can degrade the accuracy of both face detection and recognition due to the uncontrolled environment. However, few studies have been proposed to address this issue. In this paper, we propose an adaptive skin color model to make the system more reliable. First, real face region is elected among face-like regions...
Human's safety in construction areas is vital. A hard hat is required to enter a construction area. Stopping a person who is not wearing a hard hat entering a construction area is very important. Video-based surveillance to detect hard hat is a new solution to this safety problem. This paper brings different video processing techniques together to construct a framework for fast and robust hard hat...
Image morphing has received much attention in recent years. It mainly involves feature specification, geometric transformation and color blending. Here, a novel calculation method of image morphing is proposed. First, a novel coordinate system called triangle coordinate system is defined, which has a great advantage in geometric transformation. Second, corresponding feature points on images are marked...
Automatic detection of facial features in an image is important stage for various facial image interpretation work, such as face recognition, facial expression recognition, 3Dface modeling and facial features tracking. Detection of facial features like eye, pupil, mouth, nose, nostrils, lip corners, eye corners etc., with different facial expression and illumination is a challenging task. In this...
Facial rejuvenation has driven a lot of research in the field of dermatology and plastic surgery, leading to many medical procedures. This paper proposes an age prediction method that could be used to better understand the ageing process and to evaluate the benefits of a rejuvenating treatment, for example. A supervised Facial Model (SFM) is built using Partial Least Squares regression (PLSR) to capture...
This paper presents a real-time system for hand gesture classification. The hands are detected using both the depth by the stereo camera and the skin color. The reconstructed trajectory of hands is classified into one of the gesture references.
This paper proposes a framework to track faces in color video sequences. The Adaptive Support Vector Tracker (ASVT) combines face detection with target tracking through using an adaptive filter in unconstrained videos. The adjacent locations of the target point are predicted in a search window reducing the number of image regions that are candidates for faces. Thus, the method can predict the object...
This paper introduces the new color face recognition (FR) method that makes effective use of boosting learning as color-component feature selection framework. The proposed boosting color-component feature selection framework is designed for finding the best set of color-component features from various color spaces (or models), aiming to achieve the best FR performance for a given FR task. In addition,...
This paper presents a new face detection approach which is capable of detecting human faces from complex backgrounds. A new skin color modeling process is applied to the face segmentation process. Image enhancement is then used to improve the features of face candidates before feeding to the face object classifier which is based on a modified Hausdorff distance. The overall performance of the face...
Time-of-Flight (ToF) and other IR-based cameras that register depth are becoming more and more affordable in consumer electronics. This paper aims to improve a realtime hand gesture interaction system by augmenting it with a ToF camera. First, the ToF camera and the RGB camera are calibrated, and a mapping is made from the depth data to the RGB image. Then, a novel hand detection algorithm is introduced...
In TCM theory, gloss and moisture are recognized as the Qi; blue, red, yellow, white and black are recognized as the color, the five colors governs blood, the gloss governs sprit and Qi. We may estimate the overabundance or insufficiency of the viscera's essence by observing the changes of face gloss, which is a very important way to judge the condition and extrapolate the prognosis. However, because...
The problem in accurate and fast face detection and tracking in video images with complex background is studied in this paper. In order to meet both of speed and accuracy, a face detection method integrating the skin color segmentation and Split up Sparse Network of Winnows (SNoW) is presented. This kind of method can not only utilize the advantage of skin color segmentation to remove the interference...
Nowadays there exists a large variety of aspect ratios used for both image rendering (e.g. print media, TV, cinema screens etc.) and image acquisition devices (e.g. still and video cameras, scanners etc.). In order to maintain the image's original aspect ratio when adjusting for a different media, some level of cropping may be required, but the automatic zoom and crop method may not produce satisfactory...
Aiming at the human face detection in color images under complex background, a face detection method based on the combination of skin color model in YCgCr and AdaBoost algorithm is proposed in this article. Firstly, it uses skin color model in YCgCr color space to detect candidate face region in the tested image, and then further verifies the face region by the Adaboost algorithm with the added new...
This paper proposes a face occlusion verification method for an automated teller machine (ATM) application. The proposed method mainly consists of three steps. Firstly, a head and shoulder shape is detected by applying B-spline active contour to motion edges. This motion edge is generated by a kurtosis-based frame selection and distance transformation-based motion edge detection. Secondly, a face...
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