Frontal-view face detection and facial feature extraction using color, shape and symmetry based cost functions

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 669-680

  Saber, Eli ^a,b   Tekalp, A Murat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Face detection; Facial feature detection; Gibbs random fields; Image segmentation; Shape classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FACE DETECTION; GIBBS RANDOM FIELDS; SHAPE CLASSIFICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032094035     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00044-0     Document Type: Article

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