WLD: A robust local image descriptor

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1705-1720

  Chen, Jie ^a   Shan, Shiguang ^b   He, Chu ^c   Zhao, Guoying ^a   Pietikainen, Matti ^a   Chen, Xilin ^b   Gao, Wen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

face detection; local descriptor; Pattern recognition; texture; Weber law

Indexed keywords

BRODATZ; DESCRIPTORS; DIFFERENTIAL EXCITATION; FACE DATA; FACE DETECTION; FRONTAL FACES; GRADIENT ORIENTATIONS; HUMAN FACE DETECTION; HUMAN PERCEPTION; LOCAL DESCRIPTOR; LOCAL DESCRIPTORS; LOCAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS; RELATIVE INTENSITY; TEST SETS; TWO-COMPONENT;

PIXELS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEXTURES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 77955415299     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.155     Document Type: Article

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