Face detection in images

• Grant number: 05/03671-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2005
• End date: November 30, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science
• Principal Investigator: Jander Moreira
• Grantee: Denis Henrique Pinheiro Salvadeo
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Face analysis in digital images is still a challenge which involves several topics, as face detection in the scene, distractions removal (artifacts around the face must be disregarded), feature extraction for face recognition and so on. Systems for face analysis are being proposed for many decades, and still many difficulties remain to be approached. In general, a treatment for face analysis has to deal from image acquisition and low level features to higher levels, as structural representations and knowledge information for identification of the objects in the image. As the first step is the location of a face in a scene, this work proposes the development of a tool for such a task. (AU)