Three-dimensional tracking of multiple skin-colored regions by a moving stereoscopic system

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 366-378

  Argyros, Antonis A ^a   Lourakis, Manolis I A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; LIGHTING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

STEREOSCOPIC SYSTEMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0742285833     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000366     Document Type: Article

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