Automatically detecting protruding objects when shooting environmental portraits

Pei Yu Lo, Sheng Wen Shih, Jen Chang Liu, Jen Shin Hong

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Abstract

This study proposes techniques for detecting unintentional protruding objects from a subject's head in environmental portraits. The protruding objects are determined based on the color and edge information of the background regions adjacent to the head regions in an image sequence. The proposed algorithm consists of watershed segmentation and KLT feature tracking model for extracting foreground regions, a ROI (Region of Interest) extracting model based on face detection results, and a protruding object detection model based on the color clusters and edges of the background regions inside the ROI. Experimental evaluations using four test videos with different backgrounds, lighting conditions, and head ornaments show that the average detection rate and false detection rate of the proposed algorithm are 87.40% and 12.11% respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ACCV 2010 Workshops - ACCV 2010 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Pages132-141
Number of pages10
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventInternational Workshops on Computer Vision, ACCV 2010 - Queenstown, New Zealand
Duration: Nov 8 2010Nov 9 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume6469 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops on Computer Vision, ACCV 2010
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityQueenstown
Period11/8/1011/9/10

Keywords

  • Computational Photography
  • Photo Composition
  • Protruding Object

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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