Integrated detection and tracking of multiple faces using particle filtering and optical flow-based elastic matching

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 708-725

  Bhandarkar, Suchendra M ^a   Luo, Xingzhi ^a  

^a The University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic matching; Genetic Algorithm; Multiple face tracking; Optical flow; Particle filtering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ELASTIC MATCHING; ELASTIC OBJECTS; FACE DETECTIONS; FACE TRACKING SYSTEMS; FIXED CAMERAS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; GRADUAL CHANGES; INTEGRAL IMAGES; INTEGRATED DETECTIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINE SEGMENTS; MATCHING ALGORITHMS; MOVING CAMERAS; MULTI-SCALE; MULTIPLE FACE TRACKING; OBJECT SHAPES; OPTICAL FLOW ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE FILTERING; PARTICLE SAMPLINGS; PROPOSAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RADON TRANSFORMS; REGION-BASED; ROBUST TRACKING; VOTING SCHEMES;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CAMERAS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; RADON;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 64049085546     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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