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INTERACTIVE Embedded FACE RECOGNITION

Douglas Lyon and Nishanth Vincent

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This paper describes the design and construction of a prototype for embedded face detection and recognition algorithms. The test-bed is called the PITS (Portable Interactive Terrorist Identification System). It makes use of a hand-held device called the Sharp Zaurus . The embedded device has a processor, camera, color display, and wireless networking. This system is different from existing systems because of its embedded nature and its' use of Java technologies. The embedded device performs both detection and recognition. We present a skin color approach in the YCbCr color space for fast and accurate skin detection. We then process this image using a combination of morphological operators and elliptical shape of faces to segment faces from the other skin colored regions. An eigenface algorithm processes the segmented faces and matches the face to a face database.


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  Douglas A. Lyon (M'89-SM'00) received the Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1991, 1985 and 1983). Dr. Lyon has worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. He is currently the Chairman of the Computer Engineering Department at Fairfield University, in Fairfield CT, a senior member of the IEEE and President of DocJava, Inc., a consulting firm in Connecticut. Dr. Lyon has authored or co-authored three books (Java, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing in Java and Java for Programmers). He has authored over 30 journal publications. Email: lyon@docjava.com. Web: http://www.DocJava.com.


 

Nishanth Vincent ('03-'06) recieved the M.S. degree in Electrical and computer engineering from Fairfield University, CT and received the B.E. degree in Instrumentation and control systems from Madras University ('99 - '03). Nishanth has worked at Pitney Bowes as an intern in their Mixed Media Network labs. He is currently working as a web developer at Zentechinc, in Norwalk CT email : nishanth.vincent@zentechinc.com


Douglas A. Lyon and Nishanth Vincent “INTERACTIVE Embedded FACE RECOGNITION”, in Journal of Object Technology , vol. 8. no. 1, January-February 2009 pp. 23-53 http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2009_01/column2/


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