Facial Image Segmentation using Wavelet Transform

웨이브렛 변환을 적용한 얼굴영상분할

  • 김장원 (경원전문대학 사무자동화과) ;
  • 박현숙 (동아방송대학 방송기술과) ;
  • 김창석 (명지대학교 전자공학과)
  • Published : 2000.09.01

Abstract

In this study, we propose the image segmentation algorithm for facial region segmentation. The proposed algorithm separates the mean image of low frequency band from the differential image of high frequency band in order to make a boundary using HWT, and then we reduce the isolation pixels, projection pixels, and overlapped boundary pixels from the low frequency band. Also the boundaries are detected and simplified by the proposed boundary detection algorithm, which are cleared on the thinning process of 1 pixel unit. After extracting facial image boundary by using the proposed algorithm, we make the mask and segment facial image through matching original image. In the result of facial region segmentation experiment by using the proposed algorithm, the successive facial segmentation have 95.88% segmentation value.

본 연구에서는 인체 상반신영상에서 얼굴부위를 분할하기 위한 영상분할 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 HWT를 적용하여 영상의 경계를 이루는 차분영상인 고주파대역과 평균영상인 저주파대역으로 분리하고, 저주파대역에서 고립점과 돌출부위, 경계중복점을 제거하였다. 또한 제안한 경계검출 알고리즘으로 경계를 검출하고 단순화시켰으며, 1픽셀 단위의 세선화과정을 통하여 경계를 선명하게 하였다. 그리고 제안 한 폐곡선추적 알고리즘으로 얼굴부위 경계만을 추출한 뒤, 마스크를 구성하고 원영상과의 정합을 통하여 얼굴부위분할을 하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 적용하여 얼굴부위 분할실험을 실행한 결과 95.88%의 분할값을 갖는 얼굴분할이 이루어졌다.

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