Feature-based face detection against skin-color like backgrounds with varying illumination

Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-132

  Hu, Wu Chih ^a   Yang, Ching Yu ^a   Huang, Deng Yuan ^b   Huang, Chun Hsiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Face detection; Skin region; Skin color like back ground; Varying illumination

Indexed keywords

FACIAL FEATURE; FEATURE-BASED; FEATURE-BASED METHOD; SKIN COLOR; SKIN COLOR MODELS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960795453     PISSN: 20734212     EISSN: 20734239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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