Illumination-invariant statistical shape recovery with contiguous occlusion

Proceedings - 2011 Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 301-308

  Elhabian, Shireen ^a   Rara, Ham ^a   Ali, Asem ^a   Farag, Aly ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

illumination modeling; occlusion handling; robust statistics; shape recovery; spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

ILLUMINATION MODELING; OCCLUSION HANDLING; ROBUST STATISTICS; SHAPE RECOVERY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RANDOM ERRORS; RECOVERY; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SPHERES;

STATISTICS;

EID: 80051820955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2011.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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