Probabilistic Multiple Face Detection and Tracking Using Entropy Measures

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 128-135

  Loutas, Evangelos ^a   Pitas, Ioannis ^a   Nikou, Christophoros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arbitration scheme; Illumination changes; Mutual information; Occlusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY;

ARBITRATION SCHEME; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; MUTUAL INFORMATION; OCCLUSION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0742307396     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.819178     Document Type: Article

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