Physiology-based face recognition in the thermal infrared spectrum

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 613-626

  Buddharaju, Pradeep ^a   Pavlidis, Ioannis T ^a   Tsiamyrtzis, Panagiotis ^b   Bazakos, Mike ^c  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Face recognition; Physiology; Thermal infrared; Vascular network

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BLOOD VESSELS; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

IMAGE MORPHOLOGY; THERMAL MINUTIA POINTS; VASCULAR NETWORK;

BIOMETRICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FACE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947527495     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1007     Document Type: Article

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