Feature-based affine-invariant localization of faces

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1490-1495

  Hamouz, M ^a   Kittler, J ^a   Kamarainen, J K ^b   Paalanen, P ^b   Kalviainen H ^b   Matas, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Face authentication; Face localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY;

FACE AUTHENTICATION; FACE LOCALIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 25844432917     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.179     Document Type: Article

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