Automatic Eye Feature Extraction in Human Face Images

Abstract

This paper presents a fuzzy-based method to extract the eye features in a head-shoulder image with plain background. This method is comprised of two stages, namely the face region estimation and the eye features extraction. In the first stage, a region growing method is adopted to estimate the face region. In the second stage, the coarse eye area is firstly determined based on the location of the nasion, then the deformable template algorithm is completed in two steps to extract the features of the eyes. Experimental results show the efficiency and robustness of this method.