An active model for facial feature tracking

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2002, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 566-571

  Ahlberg, Jörgen ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Active appearance models; Facial feature tracking; Free tracking; Model based coding; MPEG 4 face and body animation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS; FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; VIDEO SEQUENCE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036627205     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865702203078     Document Type: Article

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