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oundary.<br />

A face score is computed <strong>for</strong> each set of eyes, mouth <strong>and</strong> the ellipse.<br />

Figure 3.1 shows a detected face <strong>and</strong> the enclosing ellipse with its associated eyemouth<br />

triangle which has the highest score that exceeds a threshold. These detected<br />

facial features are grouped into a structured facial descriptor in the <strong>for</strong>m of a 2D<br />

graph <strong>for</strong> face description. These descriptors can be the input to subsequent modules<br />

such as face modeling <strong>and</strong> recognition.<br />

We now describe in detail the individual<br />

components of the face detection algorithm.<br />

3.2 Lighting Compensation <strong>and</strong> Skin Tone<br />

<strong>Detection</strong><br />

The appearance of the skin-tone color can change due to different lighting conditions.<br />

We introduce a lighting compensation technique that uses “reference white” to normalize<br />

the color appearance. We regard pixels with the top 5% of the luma (nonlinear<br />

gamma-corrected luminance) values as the reference white if the number of these pixels<br />

is sufficiently large (> 100). The red, green, <strong>and</strong> blue components of a color image<br />

are adjusted so that these reference-white pixels are scaled to the gray level of 255.<br />

The color components are unaltered if a sufficient number of reference-white pixels<br />

is not detected. This assumption is reasonable not only because an image usually<br />

contains “real white” (i.e., white reference in [155]) pixels in some regions of interest<br />

(such as eye regions), but also because the dominant bias color always appears in<br />

the “real white”. Figure 3.2 demonstrates an example of our lighting compensation<br />

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