Synchronized submanifold embedding for person-independent pose estimation and beyond

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 202-210

  Yan, Shuicheng ^a   Wang, Huan ^b   Fu, Yu ^c   Yan, Jun ^d   Tang, Xiaoou ^d,e   Huang, Thomas S ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

3 D pose estimation; Age estimation; Manifold learning; Simplex; Subspace learning

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; FACE RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEARNING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3-D POSE ESTIMATION; AGE ESTIMATION; MANIFOLD LEARNING; SIMPLEX; SUBSPACE LEARNING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 58049221030     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2008.2006400     Document Type: Article

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