Fast and efficient algorithm for face detection in colour images

Machine Graphics and Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-399

  Kukharev, Georgy ^a   Nowosielski, Adam ^a  

^a WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Colour segmentation; Eyes localization; Face detection; Real time; Skin colour; Template matching

Indexed keywords

COLOUR SEGMENTATION; EYES LOCALIZATION; FACE DETECTION; REAL-TIME; SKIN-COLOR; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 24344465847     PISSN: 12300535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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