Enhancing the robustness of skin-based face detection schemes through a visual attention architecture

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1295-1298

  Rapantzikos, Konstantinos ^a   Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOTION COMPENSATION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUALIZATION;

DOMAIN INFORMATION; VISUAL ATTENTION (VA);

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33749626677     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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