Frontal-view face detection and facial feature extraction using color and morphological operations

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1053-1068

  Wang, Jian Gang ^a   Sung, Eric ^a  

^a Sch Elec Electron Eng   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Facial feature extraction; Morphological operation; Skin color segmentation

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

SKIN COLOR SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0033204992     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00072-0     Document Type: Article

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