Human eye location algorithm based on multi-scale self-quotient image and morphological filtering for multimedia big data

Bin Song, Doo Kwon Baik, Shunxian Zhou

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Abstract

In order to reduce the effect on the eyes location caused by the variation of illumination and expression, this paper proposes a human eye location algorithm based on the multi-scale self-quotient image and morphological filtering. Firstly, the multi-scale self-quotient image is used to offset the lighting effects on the face, then the morphological open-close operation will be taken to enhance the local features around the eyes and relevant coefficient is used to roughly position the eyes. At last, the variance projection method will be used to analyze the roughly-positioned areas and binarize them to position accurately the central point of the eye. The experiments on the images from JAFFE Database, Yale B Database and AR database have shown that the proposed algorithm can well position the center of the eye, and it is robust to deal with the changes of illumination and expressions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10063-10075
Number of pages13
JournalMultimedia Tools and Applications
Volume77
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Apr 1

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61402165, and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department Project under Grant No. 15C1288 and No. 16B244. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editor for the very instructive suggestions that led to the much improved quality of this paper.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Keywords

  • Human Eye Location
  • Morphological Filtering
  • Multi-scale Self-quotient Image
  • Multimedia Big Data
  • Variance Projection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Media Technology
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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