Multipose face detection using Zernike moment invariants

Abstract

We propose a new efficient technique for localization of faces in arbitrary images. The technique is based on segmentation of images into skin colored blobs, which is followed by computation of scale, translation and rotation invariant moment-based features to learn a statistical model of faces and non-face regions. The superiority of the method to the state-of-the-art face detection methods is its ability to detect non-frontal faces in a person independent way. Experimental results on CVL database show that the proposed algorithm gives higher true positive rates as compared to the well-known Viola-Jones face detector.