Skin heat transfer model of facial thermograms and its application in face recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2718-2729

  Wu, Shiqian ^a   Lin, Weisi ^b   Xie, Shoulie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Face recognition; Infrared facial images; Skin heat transfer model; Thermal physiology

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SKIN;

INFRARED FACIAL IMAGES; SKIN HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; THERMAL PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 42749094181     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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