Automatic detection and tracking of human heads using an active stereo vision system

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

Volumn 1351, Issue , 1997, Pages 632-639

  Tang, Cheng Yuan ^a,b   Hung, Yi Ping ^a   Chen, Zen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE MATCHING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACTIVE STEREO VISION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; HEAD TRACKING SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTORS; STEREO CAMERAS; STEREO IMAGE PAIRS;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 77955792043     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63930-6_176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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