Abstract

Extraction of the lip region is essential to lip reading, which is a field of image processing that is used to obtain meaningful information by the analysis of lip movement from human face images. Many conventional methods for extraction of the lip region have been proposed. One is to identify the lip position by using geometric face structure. Another discriminates lip and skin regions by using color information only. The former is more complex than the latter; however, it can analyze black and white images as well as color images. The latter is simpler than the former; however, it is difficult to discriminate lip and skin regions because of the high similarity between these two regions, and it is less accurate than the former. Conventional methods usually analyze color coordinate systems to extract lip regions rather than analyzing the coordinate system itself. In this paper, the best color coordinate system for lip extraction was selected by the analysis of discriminability. Segmentation of the lip region with this coordinate system and a new feature vector are proposed.

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call

Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.