Human face detection is an essential step in the creation of intelligent lighting ambiences, but the constantly changing multi-color illumination makes reliable face detection more challenging. Therefore, we introduce a new face detection and localization algorithm, which retains a high performance under various indoor illumination conditions. The method is based on the creation of a robust skin mask, using general color constancy techniques, and the application of the Viola-Jones face detector on the candidate face areas. Extensive experiments, using a challenging state-of-the-art database and a new one with a wider variation in colored illumination and cluttered background, show a significantly better performance for the newly proposed algorithm than for the most widely used face detection algorithms. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.
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Katsimerou, C., Redi, J. A., & Heynderickx, I. (2013). Face Detection in Intelligent Ambiences with Colored Illumination. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 219, pp. 195–204). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00566-9_25
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