Robust real-time face tracker for cluttered environments

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 184-200

  Anderson, Keith ^a   McOwan, Peter W ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection; Face; Golden ratio; Hybrid; Morphological; Motion; Ratio; Template; Tracking

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

CLUTTERED SCENES; FACE MODELS; GOLDEN RATIO; MATCHING RATIOS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 3042817621     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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