High Level Facial Features Localisation
Using A Morphological Approach
Eyes detection
From input image, edges detection and morphological operators (dilations, erosions, openings) are combined to extract main blobs. From these blobs, the most relevant pair of blobs is chosen and supposed to be the eyes.
Figure1: Original image, detected blobs and eyes
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Boxes
From the eyes position, three boxes are built: one for the eyebrows, one for the nose and one for the mouth.
Figure 2: Boxes
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Eyebrows, Nose and Mouth detection
Each box is specifically processed to extract Eyebrows, Nose and Mouth.
Figure 3: Features
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Index | Facial Features Detection | Feature Points Extraction | Refining | Tracking