A robust lip tracking algorithm using localized color active contours and deformable models

Xin Liu*, Yiu Ming CHEUNG

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Lip tracking is crucial to the success of a lipreading recognition system. This paper presents a robust lip tracking algorithm using localized color active contours and deformable models. The proposed approach utilizes a combined semi-ellipse as the initial evolving curve and computes the localized energies in color space for evolving such that a separation of the original lip image into lip and non-lip regions can be found. Moreover, the dynamic radius selection of the local region is presented with a 16-point deformable model (Wang et al. 2004) to achieve the lip tracking. The proposed approach is adaptive to the movement of the lips from frame to frame, and robust against the appearance of the teeth and tongue. Experiments have shown the promising results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages1197-1200
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 22 May 201127 May 2011

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period22/05/1127/05/11

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

User-Defined Keywords

  • deformable model
  • Lip tracking
  • localized color active contour
  • localized energy

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