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Thomas David Heselt ine BSc. Hons. The Un iversity of York

Departme nt of Computer Scie nee

For the Qualification of PhD. -- September 2005 -

《Face Recog niti on: Two-Dime nsio nal and Three-Dime nsional Tech nique》

4 Two-dimensional Face Recognition

4.1 Feature Localization

Before discuss ing the methods of compari ng two facial images we now take a brief look at some at the prelimi nary processes of facial feature alig nment. This process typically con sists of two stages: face detect ion and eye localisati on. Depe nding on the applicati on, if the positi on of the face with in the image is known beforeha nd (for a cooperative subject in a door access system for example) the n the face detect ion stage can ofte n be skipped, as the regi on of in terest is already known. Therefore, we discuss eye localisati on here, with a brief discussi on of face detect ion in the literature review(sect ion 3.1.1).

The eye localisati on method is used to alig n the 2D face images of the various test sets used throughout this section. However, to ensure that all results presented are represe ntative of the face recog niti on accuracy and not a product of the performa nee of the eye localisati on rout ine, all image alig nments are manu ally checked and any errors corrected, prior to testi ng and evaluati on.

We detect the position of the eyes within an image using a simple template based method. A training set of manually pre-aligned images of faces is taken, and each image cropped to an area around both eyes. The average image is calculated and used as a template.

Figure 4-1 - The average eyes. Used as a template for eye detection.

Both eyes are in cluded in a sin gle template, rather tha n in dividually search ing for each eye in turn, as the characteristic symmetry of the eyes either side of the no se, provides a useful feature that helps disti nguish betwee n the eyes and other false positives that may be picked up in the background. Although this method is highly susceptible to scale(i.e. subject distance from the camera) and also in troduces the assumpti on that eyes in the image appear n ear horiz on tai. Some preliminary experimentation also reveals that it is advantageous to include the area of skin just ben eath the eyes. The reas on being that in some cases the eyebrows can closely match the template, particularly if there

are shadows in the eye-sockets, but the area of skin below the eyes helps to disti nguish the eyes from eyebrows (the area just below the eyebrows con tai n eyes, whereas the area below the eyes contains only plain skin).

A window is passed over the test images and the absolute difference taken to that of the average eye image shown above. The area of the image with the lowest difference is taken as the region of interest containing the eyes. Applying the same procedure using a smaller template of the in dividual left and right eyes the n refi nes each eye positi on.

This basic template-based method of eye localisati on, although provid ing fairly preciselocalisati ons, ofte n fails to locate the eyes completely. However, we are able to improve performa nce by in cludi ng a weighti ng scheme.

Eye localisati on is performed on the set of training images, which is the n separated in to two sets: those in which eye detect ion was successful; and those in which eye detect ion failed. Taking the set of successful localisatio ns we compute the average dista nce from the eye template (Figure 4-2 top). Note that the image is quite dark, indicating that the detected eyes correlate closely to the eye template, as we would expect. However, bright points do occur near the whites of the eye, suggesting that this area is often inconsistent, varying greatly from the average eye template.

Figure 4-2 -Distance to the eye template for successful detections (top) indicating variance due to noise and failed detections (bottom) showing credible variance due to miss-detected features.

In the lower image (Figure 4-2 bottom), we have take n the set of failed localisati on s(images of the forehead, no se, cheeks, backgro und etc. falsely detected by the localisati on routi ne) and once aga in computed the average dista nce from the eye template. The bright pupils surr oun ded by darker areas in dicate that a failed match is ofte n due to the high correlati on of the nose and cheekb one regi ons overwhel ming the poorly correlated pupils. Wanting to emphasise the differenee of the pupil regions for these failed matches and minimise the varianee of the whites of the eyes for successful matches, we divide the lower image values by the upper image to produce a weights vector as show n in Figure 4-3. When applied to the differe nee image before summi ng a total error, this weight ing scheme provides a much improved detect ion rate.