Tracking regions of human skin through illumination changes

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1715-1723

  Störring, Moritz ^a   Kočka, Tomáš ^a   Andersen, Hans J ^a   Granum, Erik ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Colour analysis; Physics based vision; Skin colour modelling; Tracking; Varying illumination

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0037411270     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00327-6     Document Type: Article

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