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This paper proposes a method for detecting facial regions in complex environments. To obtain accurate facial boundaries, active contours are used. In the active contour model, a contour is presented by zero level set of level function φ, and evolved via level set partial differential equations. The advantages of the proposed method include 1) the robustness to noise, 2) accurate detection regions of multiple face with various viewpoints and sizes. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed method, it was tested with several natural scenes, and the results are compared with these of geometric active contours. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Chang, J.S., Kim, E.Y., Kim, H.J. (2004). Face Detection with Active Contours Using Color Information. In: Conejo, R., Urretavizcaya, M., Pérez-de-la-Cruz, JL. (eds) Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence. TTIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25945-9_33
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