Can we ID from CCTV: Image quality in digital CCTV and face identification performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6982, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Keval, Hina U ^a   Sasse, M Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital CCTV; Face identification; MPEG 4; Security; Task performance; Video compression; Video quality; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PHOTOGRAPHY;

BIT RATE (BPP); DIGITAL SYSTEMS; FACE IDENTIFICATION; FACE IMAGES; HIGH-QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHS; LOW QUALITY (LQ); NEW GENERATION; PERSON IDENTIFICATION; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; SECURITY REQUIREMENTS; VIDEO COMPRESSION; VIDEO QUALITY; WIDE-RANGE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 44949168624     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.774212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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