FAP extraction using three-dimensional motion estimation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 865-876

  Sarris, Nikos ^a,b   Grammalidis, Nikos ^a,b   Strintzis, Michael Gerassimos ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

3 D motion estimation; FAP extraction; Head tracking; Model based coding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CODING; MOTION PICTURES; OPTICAL FLOWS; REDUNDANCY;

FACIAL DEFINITION POINTS (FDP);

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 0036817570     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2002.804888     Document Type: Article

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