A novel method for automatic face segmentation, facial feature extraction and tracking

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-281

  Sobottka, Karin ^a,b   Pitas, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; LIGHTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC FACE SEGMENTATION; FACE CONTOUR TRACKING; FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032097277     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0923-5965(97)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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