Application of the Karhunen-Loéve Procedure for the Characterization of Human Faces

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 103-108

  Kirby, M ^a   Sirovich, L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data compression; Data extension; Face characterization; Karhunen Lo ve expansion; Symmetric eigenfunctions

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING--DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; KARHUNEN-LOEVE EXPANSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025236073     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.41390     Document Type: Article

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