Combining edge detection and region segmentation for lip contour extraction

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

Volumn 6169 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 11-20

  Saeed, Usman ^a   Dugelay, Jean Luc ^a  

^a EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Image Processing; Lip Detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLASSICAL METHODS; DETECTION PROCESS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIP CONTOUR; LIP CONTOUR EXTRACTION; LIP DETECTION; REGION SEGMENTATION; VALID DATABASE;

COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 77954875519     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14061-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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