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Face Segmentation: A Journey From Classical to Deep Learning Paradigm, Approaches, Trends, and Directions

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submitted on 2024-09-17, 05:31 and posted on 2024-09-17, 05:32 authored by Khalil Khan, Rehan Ullah Khan, Kashif Ahmad, Farman Ali, Kyung-Sup Kwak

Face segmentation represents an active area of research within the bio-metric community in particular and the computer vision community in general. Over the last two decades, methods for face segmentation have received increasing attention due to their diverse applications in several human-face image analysis tasks. Although many algorithms have been developed to address the problem, face segmentation is still a challenge not being completely solved, particularly for images taken in wild, unconstrained conditions. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of face segmentation, focusing on methods for both the constrained and unconstrained environmental conditions. The article illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of previously proposed methods in state-of-the-art (SOA). The approaches presented comprise the seminal works on face segmentation and culminating in SOA approaches of the deep learning architecture. An extensive comparison of the previous approaches is intuitively presented, with a discussion of the potential directions for future research on the topic. We believe this comprehensive review and recap will contribute to a number of application domains, and will augment the knowledge of the research community.

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Published in: IEEE Access
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2982970

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Language

  • English

Publisher

IEEE

Publication Year

  • 2020

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • College of Science and Engineering - HBKU