Speedup of face detection in digital images
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for use in face detection, the method comprising:
- establishing a plurality of initial candidate windows within a digital image, said digital image having a plurality of pixels represented by color space information;
for each initial candidate window, examining said color space information for each of at least a portion of said pixels within said initial candidate window and classifying each of said examined pixels as being either a skin color pixel or a non-skin color pixel; and
establishing a plurality of subsequent candidate windows that includes at least a portion of said initial candidate windows based on said classified pixels within each of said initial candidate windows;
wherein classifying each of said examined pixels as either said skin color pixel or said non-skin color pixel further includes classifying “
gray”
pixels as skin color pixels; and
wherein said “
gray”
pixels have associated chrominance information Cr and Cb substantially equal to zero.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Improved methods and apparatuses are provided for use in face detection. The methods and apparatuses significantly reduce the number of candidate windows within a digital image that need to be processed using more complex and/or time consuming face detection algorithms. The improved methods and apparatuses include a skin color filter and an adaptive non-face skipping scheme.
-
Citations
56 Claims
-
1. A method for use in face detection, the method comprising:
-
establishing a plurality of initial candidate windows within a digital image, said digital image having a plurality of pixels represented by color space information; for each initial candidate window, examining said color space information for each of at least a portion of said pixels within said initial candidate window and classifying each of said examined pixels as being either a skin color pixel or a non-skin color pixel; and establishing a plurality of subsequent candidate windows that includes at least a portion of said initial candidate windows based on said classified pixels within each of said initial candidate windows; wherein classifying each of said examined pixels as either said skin color pixel or said non-skin color pixel further includes classifying “
gray”
pixels as skin color pixels; andwherein said “
gray”
pixels have associated chrominance information Cr and Cb substantially equal to zero. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
-
-
22. A computer-readable medium having computer-implementable instructions for causing one or more processing units to perform acts comprising:
-
establishing a plurality of initial candidate windows within a digital image, said digital image having a plurality of pixels represented by color space information; for each initial candidate window, examining said color space information for each of at least a portion of said pixels within said initial candidate window; classifying each of said examined pixels as being either a skin color pixel or a non-skin color pixel; and establishing a plurality of subsequent candidate windows that includes at least a portion of said initial candidate windows based on said classified pixels within each of said initial candidate windows; wherein classifying each of said examined pixels as either said skin color pixel or said non-skin color pixel further includes classifying “
gray”
pixels as skin color pixels; andwherein said “
gray”
pixels have associated chrominance information Cr and Cb substantially equal to zero. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
-
-
43. An apparatus for use in face detection, the apparatus comprising:
-
memory suitable for storing a digital image having a plurality of image pixels represented by color space information; and logic operatively coupled to said memory and configured to; establish a plurality of initial candidate windows using said digital image, wherein each initial candidate window including pixels associated with at least a portion of said image pixels, for each initial candidate window, examine said color space information for each of at feast a portion of said pixels within said initial candidate window and classifying each of said examined pixels as being either a skin color pixel or a non-skin color pixel, and establish a plurality of subsequent candidate windows that includes at least a portion of said initial candidate windows based on said classified pixels within each of said initial candidate windows; wherein said logic is further configured to classify “
gray”
pixels as skin color pixels; andwherein said “
gray”
pixels have associated chrominance information Cr and Cb substantially equal to zero. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
-
Specification