Face Detection using 3-D Time-of-Flight and Colour Cameras

Konferenz: ISR/ROBOTIK 2010 - ISR 2010 (41st International Symposium on Robotics) and ROBOTIK 2010 (6th German Conference on Robotics)
07.06.2010 - 09.06.2010 in Munich, Germany

Tagungsband: ISR/ROBOTIK 2010

Seiten: 5Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Fischer, Jan; Seitz, Daniel; Verl, Alexander (Fraunhofer IPA, Nobelstr. 12, 70597 Stuttgart, Germany)

Inhalt:
This paper presents a novel method to apply standard 2-D face detection methods on 3-D data. The procedure uses a sensor setup consisting of a 3-D time-of-flight camera and a colour camera. At first, face detection is performed on the less structured and low-resolution 3-D range image. Only for those areas regarded as faces on the 3-D range image, processing continues on the corresponding high-resolution 2-D colour image areas. This enables a pre-filtering of the visible area prior to the actual face detection step on selected colour regions.