Real-time lip contour extraction and tracking using an improved active contour model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5359 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2008, Pages 236-245

  Chen, Jingying ^a,b   Tiddeman, Bernard ^b   Zhao, Gang ^a  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; COLOR SPACE; ENTROPY ANALYSIS; IMAGE GRADIENTS; LIP CONTOUR EXTRACTION; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; ORAL CAVITY; TRACKING METHOD;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70149103581     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89646-3_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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