An Effective Face Region Detection Using Fuzzy-Neural Network

In this paper, we propose a novel method that can detect face region effectively with fuzzy theory and neural network We make fuzzy rules and membership functions to describe the face color. In this algorithm, we use a perceptually uniform color space to increase the accuracy and stableness of the nonlinear color information. We use this model to extract the face candidate, and then scan it with the pre-built sliding window by using a neural network-based pattern-matching method to find eye. A neural network examines small windows of face candidate, and decides whether each window contains eye. We can standardize the face candidate geometrically with detected eyes.