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Department Engineering And Computing PROJECT PROPOSAL

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Project Title :
REAL-TIME FACE DETECTION SYSTEM WITH ADDITIONAL FEATURES.

Student Name :

RUSYDAN KAMIL BIN KAMARUDDIN ZANARIAH BINTI MOHSIN ZAINAL ROSLI BIN DASUKI

Matrix No. Student:

071060112 073040511 074012441

Course: HND IN MECHATRONIC

Supervisors Name:

PROF.DR.SAZALI BIN YAACOB

... (Student Signature) Name : RUSYDAN KAMIL B KAMARUDDIN Name

... (Supervisor Signature) : PROF.DR.SAZALI BIN YAACOB

Date

: 29 / 07 / 2008

Date

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PROJECT ASBTRACT

Summary of the proposed project in not more than 200 words

To develop a real-time face detection system with the additional features using National Instruments Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) graphical development environment and National Instrument Vision Automated Inspection (NI Vision AI) to develop a rapid and automatic face detection system. The face detection system detects a persons front face which includes eye brows, eyes, nose and mouth. The program is an integration of a front face, skin color region, face expression, background subtraction, and face searching processes that work together to detect faces in a captured video frames which attractive Graphical User Interface (GUI). This project will use a minimal hardware such as USB camera and standard computer and able to run on any computer system of the standard specification without any additional requirements. The system is to be automatic, robust and able to operate with minimal necessary interaction from the user.

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PROBLEMS STATEMENT AND THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

Please state the problem to be studies and objectives of the proposed project in clear and concise term. Use additional sheets if necessary.

Problem Statement: To achieve a face detection system with high robustness, reliability, and speed is difficult due to the unlimited possibilities of variations in input video images from a dynamic environment. Other than that, the orientation of the face, the size of the face within the video, and the number of faces in the video image at any one time could prove to be troublesome to deal with in high-speed, real-time applications. Thus the challenge was to develop a robust face detection program that can accurately detect faces in a cluttered image.

The objectives of the project: To use the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment and National Instrument Vision Automated Inspection (NI Vision AI) to develop a rapid and automatic face detection system. To covering the toolbox and the features function library of NI Vision AI which are used for develop the system to detect faces in a captured video frames which attractive with the Graphical User Interface (GUI). To develop the face detection system that flexible to reconfiguration with the new version and only requires the minimal hardware (USB camera and any standard computer).

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PROJECT OF WORK

Clearly describe the scope of the work.

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PROJECT METHODOLOGY

Describe the procedures and methods to be used to achieve the project objectives of the proposed project. Use additional sheets if necessary.

Activity 1: Literature Review Before start doing this project, the concept of the image processing must be fully understand. In this phase, research and literature review on the real-time face detection must be done. The face detection will be using the minimal hardware so it will be focusing more into the programming using the National Instrument LabVIEW and the NI Vision AI. Possible problem will be identified and the suitable technique or method for this research will be selected.

Activity 2: Implementation / Development The development of the real-time face detection system with the additional features using National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment and NI Vision AI will used in order to achieve a high detection accuracy and satisfactory. The exits block diagram will be designed to implement the face detection system with the minimal hardware. The flow of the program of this system is shown in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: Program flowchart

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Activity 3: Testing / troubleshooting In this part, the program is integrated into the complete system. The system is validating to know that the system meets the requirements and the specification. The test is made to make sure the system that implemented is function properly. The system have been tested on its reliability, functionality, interfacing, stability and as well as the accuracy. If the system is not in functional based to the requirement, the analysis of the problem has to make for do the re-implementation of the system. The testing process will be done based to the process flow diagram below.

Figure 2: Process Flow Diagram

Activity 4: Final report Final report presentation.

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EXPECTED RESULTS

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At the end of this project, the system will able to detect only the persons front face which includes eye brows, eyes, nose and mouth using the JAI CV-S3300 Camera. The persons face will be capture into video frame because it will be used in the realtime system. The system will effectively reduce the region achieved by color segmentation and the background subtraction and the resulted of this part will used to identify the face matching.

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REFERENCE

List down the reference used in the proposed project

[1] Noor Faiezah Bt Tumari. Developing A Face Detection System Utilizing USB Webcam. Thesis of Bachelor Degree Electronics Computer (Electronic

Telecommunication). Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Melaka; 2008. [2] http://www.ni.com/ [3] http://www.ni.com/labview/family.htm?loc=section9&id=#section9 [4] S3200_3300_Oct2006_Vers1.4_Manual.pdf [5] http://www.jai.com/EN/CameraSolutions/Products/Pages/CameraSelectionGuide.aspx [6] www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371007b.pdf: http://www.pulnix.com/Manuals/JAI/CV-

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