Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme

Lips detection is used in many applications such as face detection and lips reading. In this paper a method for lips detection in colour images in the normalised RGB colour scheme is presented. A new method, called maximum intensity normalisation, is investigated and compared with the traditional pi...

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Main Authors: Jamal Ahmad Dargham, Ali Chekima
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34960/3/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34960/2/ABSTRACT.pdf
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description Lips detection is used in many applications such as face detection and lips reading. In this paper a method for lips detection in colour images in the normalised RGB colour scheme is presented. A new method, called maximum intensity normalisation, is investigated and compared with the traditional pixel intensity normalisation method. The intensity of the colour image is first normalised using either the pixel or maximum intensity normalisation methods. Then, the skin regions in the image are determined by histogram thresholding the r-b and r-g chrominance components. The skin regions are then thresholded to classify the pixels in the image into lips or non-lips pixels. Two methods for selecting the threshold value where investigated. In the first method, the threshold value is the value that gives the minimum error of both classes. For the second method, the threshold is the value where the error of both classes is the same. Two Asian databases were used. The first was created in-house and the second was collected from the WWW. It was found out that there is no significant difference on the percentage of correct classification between the two threshold selection methods for both databases. However, percentage of correct classification for the in-house database was considerably higher than that of the WWW database.
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spelling ums.eprints-349602022-11-24T04:07:30Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34960/ Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme Jamal Ahmad Dargham Ali Chekima QA71-90 Instruments and machines Lips detection is used in many applications such as face detection and lips reading. In this paper a method for lips detection in colour images in the normalised RGB colour scheme is presented. A new method, called maximum intensity normalisation, is investigated and compared with the traditional pixel intensity normalisation method. The intensity of the colour image is first normalised using either the pixel or maximum intensity normalisation methods. Then, the skin regions in the image are determined by histogram thresholding the r-b and r-g chrominance components. The skin regions are then thresholded to classify the pixels in the image into lips or non-lips pixels. Two methods for selecting the threshold value where investigated. In the first method, the threshold value is the value that gives the minimum error of both classes. For the second method, the threshold is the value where the error of both classes is the same. Two Asian databases were used. The first was created in-house and the second was collected from the WWW. It was found out that there is no significant difference on the percentage of correct classification between the two threshold selection methods for both databases. However, percentage of correct classification for the in-house database was considerably higher than that of the WWW database. 2006 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34960/3/FULL%20TEXT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34960/2/ABSTRACT.pdf Jamal Ahmad Dargham and Ali Chekima (2006) Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme. In: 2006 2nd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies, 24 - 28 April 2006, Damascus, Syria. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1684613
spellingShingle QA71-90 Instruments and machines
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Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme
title Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme
title_full Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme
title_fullStr Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme
title_full_unstemmed Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme
title_short Lips detection in the normalised RGB colour scheme
title_sort lips detection in the normalised rgb colour scheme
topic QA71-90 Instruments and machines
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