A robust method for detecting facial orientation in infrared images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-309

  Wu, Shiqian ^a   Jiang, Lijun ^a   Xie, Shoulie ^a   Yeo, Allen C B ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c THOMSON SCIENTIFIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facial orientation estimation; Infrared images; Outlier detection; Single linkage clustering

Indexed keywords

FACIAL ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; OUTLIER DETECTION; SINGLE LINKAGE CLUSTERING;

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; ITERATIVE METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 27744551988     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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