Inventors
Edwin Ho, Alison Joan Lennon, Andrew Peter Bradley
Publication date
2003/12/9
Patent office
US
Patent number
6661907
Application number
09326561
Description
The present invention discloses the detection of faces in digital images. Rather than subjecting the entire image (1) to computationally intensive face detection analysis, the image is instead segmented into regions (2) each of which has a substantially homogeneous color. Only those regions (2) having a predominantly skin color are then subjected to the face detection analysis. Preferably the face detection analysis is independent of facial color.
Total citations
Scholar articles
E Ho, AJ Lennon - US Patent 6,661,907, 2003
E Ho, AJ Lennon, AP Bradley - US Patent 7,218,759, 2007