Facial feature extraction based on the Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus (SUSAN) Algorithm

Picture Coding Symposium 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 261-266

  Hess, Mauricio ^a   Martinez, Geovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS;

FACE SEGMENTATION; MODEL-BASED CODING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FACE MODEL; VIDEOPHONE SEQUENCES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 18144397871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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