<FONT face=Verdana>Thermal infrared faces have the characteristics of edge and detail faintness
low contrast
different temperature distribution between faces and their backgrounds.Focusing on these characteristics
a new image segmentation method is proposed.Gray projection is used to coarsely locate face region.Fuzzy connectedness is used to segment background and determine the<FONT face=Verdana> positions of eyebrows.According to the centers of eyebrows
faces are located exactly and normalized.The experimental results show that the method eliminates the influence of background
reserves more facial information and can effectively locate and segment thermal infrared face images.