Facial shape localization using probability gradient hints

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 897-900

  Niu, Zhiheng ^a   Shan, Shiguang ^b   Chen, Xilin ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Boosting; Facial shape localization; Maximum a posteriori estimation; Probability gradient hints

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BOOSTING; FACE IMAGES; FACIAL LANDMARK; FACIAL SHAPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCAL TEXTURE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; NOVEL METHODS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PUBLIC DATABASE; SHAPE STATISTICS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FACE RECOGNITION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79959465198     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2009.2026457     Document Type: Article

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