Eye localization in low and standard definition content with application to face matching

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 921-933

  Kroon, Bart ^a,b   Maas, Sander ^b   Boughorbel, Sabri ^b   Hanjalic, Alan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Eye localization; Face detection; Face matching; Face recognition; Face registration; Local binary pattern

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; EYE LOCALIZATION; FACE DETECTION; FACE MATCHING; FACE REGISTRATION; LOCAL BINARY PATTERN;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; STANDARDS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 67349088551     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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