A novel statistical generative model dedicated to face recognition

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-110

  Heusch, Guillaume ^a,b   Marcel, Sébastien ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian Networks; Face recognition; Local features; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

APPEARANCE BASED; EIGENFACES; FACE AUTHENTICATION; FACE IMAGES; FISHER-FACES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; GENERATIVE MODEL; LOCAL FEATURES; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; SALIENT FACIAL FEATURES; STATISTICAL MODELS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449517412     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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