Facial feature localization based on an improved active shape model

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2215-2223

  Zheng, Zhonglong ^a   Jiong, Jia ^a   Chunjiang, Duanmu ^a   Liu, XinHong ^a   Yang, Jie ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Facial feature localization; Multi resolution analysis; Profile extension

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FACIAL FEATURE LOCALIZATION; MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 39949083387     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.12.014     Document Type: Article

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