Extraction of discriminative features from salient facial patches plays a vital role in effective
facial expression recognition. The accurate detection of facial landmarks improves the …

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a general purpose programmable logic device
that can be configured by a customer after manufacturing to perform from a simple logic gate …

A robust face detection technique along with mouth localization, processing every frame in
real time (video rate), is presented. Moreover, it is exploited for motion analysis onsite to …

Image processing is a technique used for applying different operations to an image to
produce an improved image or extract relevant information. Image processing has multiple …

Nowadays, facial expression analysis (FEA) is becoming an important application on
various fields such as medicine, education, entertainment and crime analysis because it …

Facial expression recognition has many potential applications which has attracted the
attention of researchers in the last decade. Feature extraction is one important step in …

This paper presents an efficient hardware architecture of Prewitt edge detection for high
speed image processing applications. The hardware design is implemented by using …

Many fatal accidents have happened due to drivers failing to stop at stop signs. A stop sign
recognition system could be used to reduce the risk of accidents by warning the driver when …

Naive Bayes is one of the most effective and efficient classification algorithms and its
classifiers still tend to perform very well under unrealistic assumptions. Especially for small …

In this paper, we present a parallel architecture for fast and robust face detection
implemented on FPGA hardware. We propose the first implementation that meets both real …