Face Tracking with Protection of the Privacy using Color Histogram and Evolutionary Video Processing

In this paper, a face tracking method is proposed tomonitor a person with protection of the privacy using amonocular camera. By applying a processing, which shufflesan interested pixel with neighbor pixel, the privacy canbe protected. Although some image features, such as edgeand corner are lost, color histogram feature is not lost extremely.Therefore, the proposed method uses the histogram.By combining with Genetic Algorithm (GA), the proposedmethod can track the face with robustness to location, scaling,and rotation changes. As a result of experiments, theaverage accuracy and the processing time of the proposedmethod are 63% and 23 fps, a better result than othermethods.