Facial feature extraction in an infrared image by proxy with a visible face image

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2057-2066

  Wang, Jian Gang ^a   Sung, Eric ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Deformable model; Facial feature extraction; Head pose estimation; Stereo face modeling; Thermal face image analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CAMERA CALIBRATION; FACIAL FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEAD-POSE ESTIMATION; STEREO FACE MODELING; THERMAL FACE IMAGE ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34648823499     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.904567     Document Type: Article

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