A real-time head nod and shake detector using HMMs

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 461-466

  Tan, Wenzhao ^a   Rong, Gang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AdaBoost; Face detection; Head nod; Head shake; Hidden Markov models

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MARKOV PROCESSES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

FACE DETECTION;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141921616     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(03)00088-5     Document Type: Article

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