A low-complexity face-assisted coding scheme for low bit-rate video telephony

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-108

  Lin, Chia Wen ^a   Chang, Yao Jen ^b   Chen, Yung Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Face detection; Face tracking; Low bitrate video coding; Rate control; Video coding

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE QUALITY; PROBABILITY; VISION;

VIDEO TELEPHONY;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0041975936     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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