Human face detection via characterized convex regional relationship in color images

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 759-762

  Park, Chang Woo ^a   Kim, Euntai ^b   Park, Mignon ^b  

^a Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI)   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Color space; Convex hull; Face detection; Face location; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN MATCHING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COLOR SPACE; HUMAN FACE DETECTION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0142248339     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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