Fast and accurate 3D face recognition: Using registration to an intrinsic coordinate system and fusion of multiple region classifiers

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-414

  Spreeuwers, Luuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D face recognition; FRGC; Fusion; Region classifiers; Registration

Indexed keywords

3D FACE RECOGNITION; 3D FACES; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; FACE REGIONS; FRGC; IDENTIFICATION RATES; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MAJORITY VOTING; MATCHING SCORE; MULTIPLE REGIONS; REGION CLASSIFIERS; REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION METHODS; ROBUST APPROACHES; SYMMETRY PLANES; TEMPLATE SIZES; VERIFICATION TESTS; VOTING APPROACH;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 79958753909     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-011-0426-2     Document Type: Article

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