Face detection and tracking in a video by propagating detection probabilities

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1215-1228

  Choudhury Verma, Ragini ^a   Schmid, Cordelia ^b   Mikolajczyk, Krystian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Condensation filter; Face detection; Face tracking; Video

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONDENSATION FILTER; FACE DETECTION; FACE TRACKING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0142039772     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1233896     Document Type: Article

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