Face detection at a distance with AdaBoost filtering and color-shape information
Seokwon Yeom, Dong Su Lee · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2013
Face detection at a distance is very challenging because the image quality becomes low. This paper discusses a face detection method in the long distance with AdaBoost filtering and a false alarm reduction scheme. The false alarm reduction scheme is based on skin-color testing and variable edge mask filtering. The skin-color test involves the average RGB components of the window, followed by the binary cluster image generation. The binary cluster is composed of the alternative and null pixels according to color. The size of the edge mask is determined by the ellipse covering the binary cluster. The edge mask filters out false alarms by evaluating the contour shape of the object in the window. In the experiments, the false alarm reduction scheme is shown to be effective for face detection in images captured at a distance.