Fast radial symmetry for detecting points of interest

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 959-973

  Loy, Gareth ^a   Zelinsky, Alexander ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face detection; Feature detection; Points of interest; Radial symmetry; Real time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

RADIAL SYMMETRY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042974006     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1217601     Document Type: Article

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