基于轮廓信息的人脸检测

针对彩色图像提出了一种基于肤色模型、脸部轮廓信息以及眼睛特征的人脸检测算法.采用基于YCbCr色彩空间的肤色分割模型,初步筛选人脸的候选区域;在此基础上进行边缘检测,获得人脸轮廓信息,并利用遗传算法拟合脸部的椭圆;在椭圆的水平方向根据眼睛的几何特征来检测"眼睛对",再根据"三停五眼"来定位人脸,并利用左右对称性验证人脸.实验表明,该算法对于彩色图像的正面人脸检测具有良好的效果.     

基于支持度变换的几何活动轮廓模型轮廓提取方法

提出了一种新的轮廓提取方法,该方法将几何活动轮廓模型与映射最小二乘向量机(mapped LS-SVM)相结合.首先用映射最小二乘向量机推导出支持度滤波器,通过在基本支持度滤波器中填充零的方法得到一系列的多尺度支持度滤波器.然后通过支持度变换(SVT)计算出支持度图像.在此基础上,用支持度图像计算几何活动轮廓模型的边缘指示函数,使得曲线演化快速地收敛到期望位置.实验结果表明该方法的轮廓提取效果较好,收敛速度更快.     

基于轮廓信息的人脸检测

针对彩色图像提出了一种基于肤色模型、脸部轮廓信息以及眼睛特征的人脸检测算法。采用基于YCbCr色彩空间的肤色分割模型,初步筛选人脸的候选区域;在此基础上进行边缘检测,获得人脸轮廓信息,并利用遗传算法拟合脸部的椭圆;在椭圆的水平方向根据眼睛的几何特征来检测“眼睛对”,再根据“三停五眼”来定位人脸,并利用左右对称性验证人脸。实验表明,该算法对于彩色图像的正面人脸检测具有良好的效果。     

煤矿井下人员人脸轮廓提取方法

针对煤矿井下人员脸部轮廓难以提取而导致考勤系统识别率低的问题,提出了一种基于主动轮廓模型和主动形状模型的人脸轮廓提取方法。首先由主动形状模型估计初始轮廓位置,然后通过定义主动轮廓模型的能量函数,采用主动轮廓模型算法多次迭代后缩小标记点与真实轮廓之间的差距,提取由主动形状模型获得的正交插值的灰度值轮廓,即可得到人脸轮廓。实验结果表明,该方法较传统主动轮廓模型能够更精确地提取人脸轮廓形状。     

基于几何活动轮廓模型初始轮廓自动分割方法的研究

提出一种几何活动轮廓模型初始轮廓自动分割的方法。此方法综合利用了分水岭算法以及几何活动轮廓模型算法，通过利用人脸的肤色特征、结构特征等逐级判别原理，从而实现了自动分割的目的。实验结果表明，采用此方法很好地实现了目标对象轮廓的自动分割，基本可达到与人工干预相近的效果。此方法同样可以广泛应用干人脸检测、图像自动分割、视频监控系统等领域。     

基于活动轮廓模型的胃窦B超序列图象边缘轮廓的提取和跟踪

提出了玫种基于活动轮廓模型的胃窦Ｂ超序无图象诉提取与跟踪方法,对于序列中的第一幅图象,通过人工取点,Ｂ样条拟合的方法,提取其寝轮廓,再运用活动轮廓模型,进行边缘轮廓的逼近,以获得比较精确的胃窦边缘轮廓,在后续图象２中,将活动轮廓模型与光流模型相结合,实现了轮廓的跟踪。实验的结果证明了该方法的有效性。     

一种正面人像识别的方法

本文给出了一种正面人像识别的方法。利用活动轮廓模型进行人像处理，自动提取人脸轮廓，再利用特征脸谱描述人像间的差异信息，将人脸图象唯一地映射到由特征脸谱构造的“人脸差空间”中去，通过比较人脸图象在该空间中的位置来识别。     

高精度连续人脸轮廓提取

提取连续且高精度的人脸轮廓线是很多图像应用重要的基础步骤.然而很多现有的轮廓提取方法并不能很好地应用在人脸轮廓上.为此提出一种快速可靠的人脸轮廓提取方法,能够在关键点提供初始化后提取到高精度连续人脸轮廓线.其主要步骤是先拟合关键点形成一条初始化曲线,沿其密集采样重叠的矩形区域,将整个人脸轮廓区域划分成很多小的区域;然后在每个局部的矩形区域提取出一条抛物线引导基于梯度的局部人脸轮廓线;最后从很多局部人脸轮廓线中,通过全局融合找到最终的人脸轮廓线.这种交叉验证的机制保证了最后结果的正确性.最后在LFPW和HELEN人脸数据集上进行了实验,结果表明文中方法能有效地提高人脸轮廓提取的精度.     

基于活动轮廓模型的胃窦B超序列图象边缘轮廓的提取与跟踪

提出了一种基于活动轮廓模型的胃窦B超序列图象边缘轮廓的提取与跟踪方法.对于序列中的第一幅图象,通过人工取点,B样条拟合的方法,提取其初始轮廓,再运用活动轮廓模型,进行边缘轮廓的逼近,以获得比较精确的胃窦边缘轮廓.在后续图象处理中,将活动轮廓模型与光流模型相结合,实现了轮廓的跟踪.实验的结果证明了该方法的有效性.     

基于Level Set方法的人脸轮廓提取与跟踪

提出一种基于level set方法的图像序列中人脸轮廓提取与跟踪算法，首先利用图像帧间差分快速检测出运动区域，并根据人脸图像的投影映射规则确定人脸所在的外接矩形，然后以此矩形作为初始曲线，采用一种改进的1evelset模型精确提取出入脸轮廓。由于图像序列中人脸是一直运动的，该文引入一阶线性Kalman滤波模型对人脸运动进行估计，从而较好地跟踪了运动中的人脸轮廓，实验结果表明该方法是有效的。     

多目标轮廓Mumford-Shah水平集提取

目标轮廓的快速检测进而提取其几何形状,在图形图像处理中有着重要的作用.提出了一种多目标轮廓的水平集提取方法,对基于Mumford-Shah模型的C-V方法从两方面进行了改进:增加梯度矢量场和曲线法方向的融合作为边界吸引场,生成可以驱动主动轮廓向边缘进化的双向几何变形流,保留原图像分布信息作为区域进化能,解决未考虑局部几何信息造成的区域能量捕捉信息不全,或边缘梯度场和演化曲线法线方向正交时无法实现拓扑结构变化的缺陷;对水平集函数进行修正,使得它在收敛过程中能自动进行调整,确保其满足符号距离函数的要求,扩大初始化前迭代搜索区域,减少初始化次数,提高收敛效率;最后给出所提方法的数字化求解方案.实验表明该方法可行且具有较好的鲁棒性.     

Using Prior Shapes in Geometric Active Contours in a Variational Framework

In this paper, we report an active contour algorithm that is capable of using prior shapes. The energy functional of the contour is modified so that the energy depends on the image gradient as well as the prior shape. The model provides the segmentation and the transformation that maps the segmented contour to the prior shape. The active contour is able to find boundaries that are similar in shape to the prior, even when the entire boundary is not visible in the image (i.e., when the boundary has gaps). A level set formulation of the active contour is presented. The existence of the solution to the energy minimization is also established.We also report experimental results of the use of this contour on 2d synthetic images, ultrasound images and fMRI images. Classical active contours cannot be used in many of these images.     

Higher Order Active Contours

We introduce a new class of active contour models that hold great promise for region and shape modelling, and we apply a special case of these models to the extraction of road networks from satellite and aerial imagery. The new models are arbitrary polynomial functionals on the space of boundaries, and thus greatly generalize the linear functionals used in classical contour energies. While classical energies are expressed as single integrals over the contour, the new energies incorporate multiple integrals, and thus describe long-range interactions between different sets of contour points. As prior terms, they describe families of contours that share complex geometric properties, without making reference to any particular shape, and they require no pose estimation. As likelihood terms, they can describe multi-point interactions between the contour and the data. To optimize the energies, we use a level set approach. The forces derived from the new energies are non-local however, thus necessitating an extension of standard level set methods. Networks are a shape family of great importance in a number of applications, including remote sensing imagery. To model them, we make a particular choice of prior quadratic energy that describes reticulated structures, and augment it with a likelihood term that couples the data at pairs of contour points to their joint geometry. Promising experimental results are shown on real images.     

基于自适应符号函数的主动轮廓模型

几何主动轮廓模型的缺点是对初始轮廓位置特别敏感,基于距离规则水平集（DRLSE）模型的初始轮廓曲线必须设置在目标边界的内部或者外部.基于边缘的自适应水平集（ALSE）模型,提出了一种提高初始轮廓鲁棒性的方法.但两种模型均容易出现陷入虚假边界、从弱边缘处泄露以及抗噪声能力差等问题.设计了一个结合自适应符号函数和自适应边缘指示函数的模型,使得主动轮廓演化能根据自适应符号函数的方向从初始轮廓开始自动进行膨胀及收缩,很好地改善了水平集对初始轮廓敏感的缺点,提高了鲁棒性,同时解决了水平集对收敛速度慢以及易从弱边缘处泄露的问题.此外,为了使得模型演化更加稳定,提出了一个新的距离规则项.实验结果表明：自适应符号函数的主动轮廓模型不仅可以提高分割质量,缩短图像分割时间,同时提高了对初始轮廓的鲁棒性.     

一种基于几何活动轮廓模型的弱边界区域图象分割方法

传统的几何活动轮廓模型作为一种有效的图象分割方法，一直以来被广泛使用。但其在应用中也存在不少问题，例如对图象内弱边界区域目标不能准确的分割以及对噪声的干扰容易使曲线陷入局部极值等情况。本文提出了一种基于区域梯度流力的几何活动轮廓模型，由于区域力从全局的角度为模型提供目标边界信息，这样使该模型不但能够准确的利用区域信息分割出弱边界区域而且能够有效抵御噪声的干扰。     

Bayesian shape model for facial feature extraction and recognition

A facial feature extraction algorithm using the Bayesian shape model (BSM) is proposed in this paper. A full-face model consisting of the contour points and the control points is designed to describe the face patch, using which the warping/normalization of the extracted face patch can be performed efficiently. First, the BSM is utilized to match and extract the contour points of a face. In BSM, the prototype of the face contour can be adjusted adaptively according to its prior distribution. Moreover, an affine invariant internal energy term is introduced to describe the local shape deformations between the prototype contour in the shape domain and the deformable contour in the image domain. Thus, both global and local shape deformations can be tolerated. Then, the control points are estimated from the matching result of the contour points based on the statistics of the full-face model. Finally, the face patch is extracted and normalized using the piece-wise affine triangle warping algorithm. Experimental results based on real facial feature extraction demonstrate that the proposed BSM facial feature extraction algorithm is more accurate and effective as compared to that of the active shape model (ASM).     

双重轮廓演化曲线的图像分割水平集模型

目的几何活动轮廓模型的标志性模型C-V模型及其改进LBF模型受到关注,然而这两个模型对初始轮廓曲线较强的依赖性使得模型在实际图像目标分割中表现出不稳定性或具有较高的时间复杂性。本文在对C-V模型及LBF模型的原理及对初始轮廓曲线的依赖特性进行分析的基础上,提出一种基于双重轮廓演化曲线的图像分割水平集模型。方法所提出模型的主要过程如下:1)通过设置内、外两条轮廓线,使模型在演化过程中分别从目标的内部和外部向目标边界逼近,两条轮廓线的设计原则简单,其分别位于目标的外部和与目标有重叠;2)两条轮廓线的演化走向是通过在模型中设置相关项自动控制的,即演化过程中通过最小化内、外轮廓之间的差异来自动控制两条轮廓曲线的演化趋向,使之同时从目标的内部和外部向目标边界逼近,并逐渐稳定于目标的边界。结果所提出的模型通过设置内部能量泛函项,避免了对符号距离函数的重新初始化;通过采用全局化的正则函数,增加了模型对复杂异质区域边界的捕捉能力;通过采用内、外轮廓线同时演化机制,避免了模型对初始轮廓线的过依赖性。结论所提出的模型很好地解决了传统基于区域的分割模型对轮廓曲线初始化的过依赖问题,对初始轮廓线的设置较为简单且具有较强的鲁棒性,对图像目标的分割较为准确和稳定。     

A Variational Model for Object Segmentation Using Boundary Information and Shape Prior Driven by the Mumford-Shah Functional

In this paper, we propose a new variational model to segment an object belonging to a given shape space using the active contour method, a geometric shape prior and the Mumford-Shah functional. The core of our model is an energy functional composed by three complementary terms. The first one is based on a shape model which constrains the active contour to get a shape of interest. The second term detects object boundaries from image gradients. And the third term drives globally the shape prior and the active contour towards a homogeneous intensity region. The segmentation of the object of interest is given by the minimum of our energy functional. This minimum is computed with the calculus of variations and the gradient descent method that provide a system of evolution equations solved with the well-known level set method. We also prove the existence of this minimum in the space of functions with bounded variation. Applications of the proposed model are presented on synthetic and medical images.     

Automatic extraction of face contours in images and videos

The paper proposed an automatic and accurate extraction of the human face contour algorithm. Because a human face contour includes very important facial features to identifying or verifying a person, the accuracy of face contour extraction influences performance of face recognition. The automatic extraction human face contour algorithm includes a novel flowchart for improving accuracy of face contours extraction. To obtain the edge map of a face contour, the divided-and-conquer technique and Canny edge detector were used to avoid the features in the central part of face. The genetic algorithm is implemented to automatically find the parameters of Canny edge detector. Finally, the Poisson gradient vector flow (PGVF) active contour model used the edge map to extract face contours. Three datasets with temporal sequence images were tested for evaluation of the proposed algorithm. The experimental results demonstrated that the algorithm obtained accurate face contours.     

Extracting eyebrow contour and chin contour for face recognition

This paper proposes a novel method for extraction of eyebrow contour and chin contour. We first segment rough eyebrow regions using spatial constrained sub-area K-means clustering. Then eyebrow contours are extracted by Snake method with effective image force. For chin contour extraction, we first estimate several possible chin locations which are used to build a number of curves as chin contour candidates. Based on the chin like edges extracted by proposed chin edge detector, the curve with the largest likeliness to be the actual chin contour is selected. Finally, the credible extracted eyebrow contour and the estimated chin contours are used as geometric features for face recognition. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms can extract eyebrow contours and chin contours with good accuracy and the extracted features are effective for improving face recognition rates.