Automatic adaptation of a face model using action units for semantic coding of videophone sequences

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 781-795

  Zhang, Liang ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action units; Adaptation; Face model; Semantic coding

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATTERN MATCHING;

SEMANTIC CODING; VIDEOPHONE SEQUENCES;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0032182521     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.728423     Document Type: Article

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