Tracking human face features in thermal images for respiration monitoring

2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Al Khalidi, Farah Q ^a   Saatchi, Reza ^a   Burke, Derek ^b   Elphick, Heather ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facial tracking method; Noncontact respiration monitoring; Thermal imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED IMAGING;

FACIAL TRACKING; REGION OF INTEREST; RESPIRATION MONITORING; RESPIRATION RATE; SALIENT FEATURES; SKIN TEMPERATURES; THERMAL IMAGES; TRACKING METHOD;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 78049486056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2010.5586994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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