Measuring the performance of face localization systems

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 882-893

  Rodriguez, Yann ^a   Cardinaux, Fabien ^a   Bengio, Samy ^a   Mariéthoz, Johnny ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BANCA and XM2VTS databases; Face detection and localization; Face verification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

BANCA AND XM2VTS DATABASES; EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; FACE DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; FACE VERIFICATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33747077205     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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