Automatic extraction of lips based on multi-scale wavelet edge detection

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-33

  Guan, Y P ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; LIP SEGMENTATION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 41149107512     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi:20070061     Document Type: Article

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