Volume 9 Number 11 (Nov. 2014)
Home > Archive > 2014 > Volume 9 Number 11 (Nov. 2014) >
JCP 2014 Vol.9(11): 2661-2665 ISSN: 1796-203X
doi: 10.4304/jcp.9.11.2661-2665

The Application of an Active Contour Method for Extracting Human Face Contour

Yupeng Xia1 and Feng Hu2
1School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Xili Lake, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China
2Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institution and Technology, Xili Lake, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China


Abstract—The active contour is an effective method to perform image segmentation. But its key technology problem is, both the establishment of a mathematic model and the development of the calculating algorithm are excessively dependent on the initial contour position. In dynamic image analysis, the difference method and the fast template matching algorithm provide available solutions for dealing with the problem of sensitivity to initial position in active contour method. In this paper, the initial position of human body was first tested by using difference operation of dynamic image sequence and binary. Then the face position was initially located by fast template matching algorithm. And finally, the face position was located by active contour algorithm of “balloon” model to extract the face contour.

Index Terms—Image processing, Active Contour, Template Matching, Dynamic Image Analysis.

[PDF]

Cite: Yupeng Xia and Feng Hu, "The Application of an Active Contour Method for Extracting Human Face Contour," Journal of Computers vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 2661-2665, 2014.

General Information

ISSN: 1796-203X
Abbreviated Title: J.Comput.
Frequency: Bimonthly
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Liansheng Tan
Executive Editor: Ms. Nina Lee
Abstracting/ Indexing: DBLP, EBSCO,  ProQuest, INSPEC, ULRICH's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat,etc
E-mail: jcp@iap.org
  • Nov 14, 2019 News!

    Vol 14, No 11 has been published with online version   [Click]

  • Mar 20, 2020 News!

    Vol 15, No 2 has been published with online version   [Click]

  • Dec 16, 2019 News!

    Vol 14, No 12 has been published with online version   [Click]

  • Sep 16, 2019 News!

    Vol 14, No 9 has been published with online version   [Click]

  • Aug 16, 2019 News!

    Vol 14, No 8 has been published with online version   [Click]

  • Read more>>