Precise Pupil Contour Detection Based on Minimizing the Energy of Pattern and Edge

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-112

  Yuasa, Mayumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Osamu ^a   Fukui, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Energy minimization; Pattern recognition; Pupil contour detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHTING; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN MATCHING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ENERGY MINIMIZATION; PATTERN ENERGY; PUPIL CONTOUR DETECTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0842267071     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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