Robust face tracking using colour Dempster-Shafer fusion and particle filter

2006 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Faux, F ^b   Luthon, F ^a  

^a Laboratoire LIUPPA (EA 3000)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Colour fusion; Condensation; Dempster Shafer; Face detection; Face tracking; Skin hue

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; COLOR; COPYING; CURVE FITTING; DATA FUSION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; EDGE DETECTION; FACE RECOGNITION; FORMAL LOGIC; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION FUSION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIXELS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SKIN; TRACKING (POSITION); VIDEO RECORDING; WAVE FILTERS;

A-PRIORI; COLOUR FUSION; CONDENSATION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DEMPSTER-SHAFER FUSION; ELLIPSE DETECTION; ELLIPSE-FITTING; FACE DETECTION; FACE TRACKING; FUSION PROCESSES; FUTURE WORK; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; MEAN INTENSITY; PARTICLE FILTERING; REAL-TIME FACE DETECTION; SHAFER THEORY; SKIN COLOUR; SKIN HUE; STOCHASTIC ALGORITHMS; TWO PHASES; VIDEO SEQUENCING;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 50149117224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2006.301713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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