A robust elliptical head tracker

Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 469-474

  Nanda, Harsh ^a   Fujimura, Kikuo ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAD DETECTION; HEAD TRACKER; HISTOGRAM; ROBUST ELLIPSE DETECTION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FACE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRACKING (POSITION);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 4544365465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFGR.2004.1301577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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