Facial boundary detection with an active contour model

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-74

  Chang, Jae Sik ^a   Kim, Eun Yi ^b   Kim, Hang Joon ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Facial boundary detection; Level sets; Markov random field; Skin color model

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; FACIAL BOUNDARY DETECTION; LEVEL SETS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; SKIN-COLOR MODEL;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750451596     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.06.020     Document Type: Article

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