Automatic face color segmentation based rate control for low bit-rate video coding

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Tancharoen, D ^a   Kortrakulkij, H ^a   Khemachai, S ^a   Aramvith, S ^a   Jitapunkul, S ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

FACE COLOR SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0038422853     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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