Host: The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
Accurate detection of facial feature points from photograph is crucial to analyze facial features and to synthesize impressive caricatures by computer. A lot of studies on automatic detection of facial feature points have done until now. However, accurate detection methods which can be used in above-mentioned applications have not been developed yet. This paper proposes a method to extract the nares and wings of nose accurately based on the characteristics of luminance distribution. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by applying it to various facial images captured under different conditions.
