Automatic interpretation and coding of face images using flexible models

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 743-756

  Lanitis, Andreas ^a   Taylor, Chris J ^a   Cootes, Timothy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deformable templates; Expression recognition; Face recognition; Facial feature location; Pose recovery, coding reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; FACE RECOGNITION; FACIAL FEATURE LOCATION; POSE RECOVERY;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

EID: 0031187270     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.598231     Document Type: Article

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