An Eye Detector Based on Cues and Heuristics with a Good Accuracy/Complexity Trade-off

Eye detection plays a central role in automatic face detection systems and it is also important for face recognition and face tracking. Working on the normalized RGB color space (NRGB), we initially use a combination of corner identification, color and edges as cues for localizing eyes. The eyes localization process is aided by its application on modeled skin patches based on our previous work (Chen and Grecos, 2005). Subsequently, heuristics are applied on these localized cues for the final eye detectors. Experimental results show that our scheme is very fast in the AR and Champion databases, while retaining very high detection rates.

[1]  Aleix M. Martinez,et al.  The AR face database , 1998 .

[2]  Andy Harter,et al.  Parameterisation of a stochastic model for human face identification , 1994, Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision.

[3]  Alex Pentland,et al.  View-based and modular eigenspaces for face recognition , 1994, 1994 Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

[4]  Ravi Kothari,et al.  Detection of eye locations in unconstrained visual images , 1996, Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.

[5]  Zhiwei Zhu,et al.  Combining Kalman filtering and mean shift for real time eye tracking under active IR illumination , 2002, Object recognition supported by user interaction for service robots.

[6]  Christos Grecos,et al.  Fast skin color detector for face extraction , 2005, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging.

[7]  Qiang Ji,et al.  Special issue: eye detection and tracking , 2005, Comput. Vis. Image Underst..

[8]  Anil K. Jain,et al.  Face Detection in Color Images , 2002, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[9]  A. Martínez,et al.  The AR face databasae , 1998 .

[10]  Harry Wechsler,et al.  Visual routines for eye location using learning and evolution , 2000, IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput..

[11]  Hong Yan,et al.  Locating and extracting the eye in human face images , 1996, Pattern Recognit..