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Face detection in still images under occlusion and non-uniform illumination

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Face detection is important part of face recognition system. In face recognition, face detection is taken not so seriously. Face detection is taken for granted; primarily focus is on face recognition. Also, many challenges associated with face detection, increases the value of TN (True Negative). A lot of work has been done in field of face recognition. But in field of face detection, especially with problems of face occlusion and non-uniform illumination, not so much work has been done. It directly affects the efficiency of applications linked with face detection, example face recognition, surveillance, etc. So, these reasons motivate us to do research in field of face detection, especially with problems of face occlusion and non-uniform illumination. The main objective of this article is to detect face in still image. Experimental work has been conducted on images having problem of face occlusion and non-uniform illumination. Experimental images have been taken from public dataset AR face dataset and Color FERET dataset. One manual dataset has also been created for experimental purpose. The images in this manual dataset have been taken from the internet. This involves making the machine intelligent enough to acquire the human perception and knowledge to detect, localize and recognize the face in an arbitrary image with the same ease as humans do it. This article proposes an efficient technique for face detection from still images under occlusion and non-uniform illumination. The authors have presented a face detection technique using a combination of YCbCr, HSV and L × a × b color model. The proposed technique improved results in terms of Accuracy, Detection Rate, False Detection Rate and Precision. This technique can be useful in the surveillance and security related applications.

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  1. Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India

    Ashu Kumar

  2. Department of Computational Sciences, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University, Bathinda, Punjab, India

    Munish Kumar

  3. Department of Computer Science & Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India

    Amandeep Kaur

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Kumar, A., Kumar, M. & Kaur, A. Face detection in still images under occlusion and non-uniform illumination. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 14565–14590 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10457-9

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