Illumination Variant Face Detection System Using Hierarchical Feature Method

Abstract:

In this study, we propose a new solution based on Adaboost algorithm and Back Propagation Network (BPN) of Neural Network (NN) combining local and global features with cascade architecture to detect human faces. We use Modified Census Transform (MCT) feature that belong to texture features and is less sensitive to illumination for local feature calculation. By this approach, it is not necessary to preprocess each sub-window of the image. For classification, we use the structure of hierarchical feature to control the number of features. With only MCT, it is easy to misjudge faces, and therefore in this work we include the brightness information of global features to eliminate the false positive regions. As a result, the proposed approach can have Detection Rate (DR) of 99%, false positives of only 11, and detection speed of 27.92 Frame Per Second (FPS).

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 764-765)
• Pages: 1309-1313
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.764-765.1309
• Online since: May 2015
• Authors: Chih Hsien Hsia*, Jen Shiun Chiang, Chin Yi Lin
• Keywords: Adaboost, Illumination Variant Face Detection, Modified Census Transform, Neural Network (NN), Real-Time Detection

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