Improved facial-feature detection for AVSP via unsupervised clustering and discriminant analysis

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 264-275

  Lucey, Simon ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a   Chandran, Vinod ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audio visual speech processing; Discriminant analysis; Facial feature detection; Unsupervised clustering

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATORS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0037360227     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703209045     Document Type: Article

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