Statistical estimators for use in automatic lip segmentation

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 516 CP, 2006, Pages 79-86

  Goswami, B ^a   Christmas, W J ^a   Kittler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lip segmentation; Minimum covariance determinant estimator; Robustness; Statistical estimators

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRIC VERIFICATION; FACE IMAGES; FACIAL FEATURE EXTRACTION; LIP CONTOUR; LIP SEGMENTATION; MINIMUM COVARIANCE DETERMINANT ESTIMATOR; REGION SEGMENTATION; ROBUSTNESS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL ESTIMATORS;

BIOMETRICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 67649875852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20061975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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