Robust head tracking using hybrid color and 3-D under natural and unspecified environment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5150 I, Issue , 2003, Pages 327-333

  Kim, Gwang Myung ^a   Yoon, Sung H ^a   Kim, Jung H ^b   Hur, Gi T ^c  

^a North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dongshin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Color; Depth; Head tracking; Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KALMAN FILTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BRIGHTNESS; CHROMATIC COLORS; COLOR IMAGE HISTOGRAM; HEAD TRACKING;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0141831203     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.503215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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