Detection of human faces in color image sequences with arbitrary motions for very low bit-rate videophone coding

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1503-1518

  Kapfer, M ^a   Benois Pineau, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Color representation; Face detection; Image segmentation; Motion activity; Multiresolution strategy

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARBITRARY MOTIONS; COLOR IMAGE SEQUENCES; COLOR REPRESENTATION; FACE DETECTION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0031380097     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(97)00143-8     Document Type: Article

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