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Face and Object Recognition and Detection Using Colour Vector Quantisation

Walder, C. J. and Lovell, B. C. (2002). Face and Object Recognition and Detection Using Colour Vector Quantisation. In: V. Chandran, Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications 2002. Fourth Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications 2002, Brisbane, (27-30). 17-18 December, 2002.

 
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Author(s) Walder, C. J.
Lovell, B. C.
Title of paper Face and Object Recognition and Detection Using Colour Vector Quantisation
Conference name Fourth Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications 2002
Conference location Brisbane
Conference dates 17-18 December, 2002
Proceedings title Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing and Applications 2002
Editor(s) V. Chandran
Place published Brisbane
Publisher Queensland University of Technology
Publication date 2002
Volume number 1
ISBN 1 74107 002 3
Start page 27
End page 30
Total pages 4
Collection year 2002
Language eng
Abstract/Summary In this paper we present an approach to face and object detection and recognition based on an extension of the contentbased image retrieval method of Lu and Teng (1999). The method applies vector quantisation (VQ) compression to the image stream and uses Mahalonobis weighted Euclidean distance between VQ histograms as the measure of image similarity. This distance measure retains both colour and spatial feature information but has the useful property of being relatively insensitive to changes in scale and rotation. The method is applied to real images for face recognition and face detection applications. Tracking and object detection can be coded relatively efficiently due to the data reduction afforded by VQ compression of the data stream. Additional computational efficiency is obtained through a variation of the tree structured fast VQ algorithm also presented here.
Subjects 280208 Computer Vision
E1
290901 Electrical Engineering
780199 Other
Keyword(s) Vector Quantisation
Quantisation
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