We propose a novel approach for segmentation of human objects, including face and body, in image sequences. In modern video coding techniques, e.g., MPEG-4 and MPEG-7, human objects are usually the main focus for multimedia applications. We combine temporal and spatial information and employ a neuro-fuzzy mechanism to extract human objects. A fuzzy self-clustering technique is used to divide the video frame into a set of segments. The existence of a face within a candidate face region is ensured by searching for possible constellations of eye-mouth triangles and verifying each eye-mouth combination with the predefined template. Then rough foreground and background are formed based on a combination of multiple criteria. Finally, human objects in the base frame and the remaining frames of the video stream are precisely located by a fuzzy neural network which is trained by a SVD-based hybrid learning algorithm. Through experiments, we compare our system with two other approaches, and the results have shown that our system can detect face locations and extract human objects more accurately.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0903103-093420 |
| Date | 03 September 2003 |
| Creators | Huang, Li-Ming |
| Contributors | Tzung-Pei Hong, Been-Chian Chien, Chih-Hung Wu, Shie-Jue Lee, Chaur-Heh Hsieh |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0903103-093420 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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